"Uncover the six blind spots that derail women's career paths and learn strategies to effectively overcome them for an impactful, sustainable career.
There are predictable blind spots that affect thousands of professional women during their careers, but most don't know they exist or can't see their adverse impacts.
Authors and executive coaches Brenda Wensil and Kathryn Heath have spent decades coaching and working with female executives, middle managers, and professionals across industries and age groups. From those sessions and conversations, they identified the six most critical challenges that women face in their careers, along with how to confront them:
Blind spot #1: Stop drifting-Set a goal and a strategy and start driving.
Blind spot #2: Don't go it alone-Get a posse.
Blind spot #3: Don't wing it-Practice relentlessly.
Blind spot #4: Don't leave reputation to chance-Install a personal GPS.
Blind spot #5: End brand ambiguity-Get famous for something.
Blind spot #6: Know your story-Know your limiting beliefs.
Each chapter will include stories, strategies, practical insights, and reflective questions that readers can employ to reach their professional finish line successfully no matter where they are in their journeys."
"How women can make it to the top by dismissing conventional wisdom and adopting the new rules of leadership The latest research confirms that women hold just 11% of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations today?which shockingly hasn?t changed in over 30 years. The bottom line, however, is that business is simply better with more women in it. Thankfully there?s now a real solution to this age-old problem: Break Your Own Rules distills the six faulty assumptions (or ?rules?) most women follow that get in the way of their path to leadership and power ? then delivers the correlating new rules that promise to clear that path. For example, the old rule of ?Focus on Others? must be replaced by ?Take Center Stage,? ?Hard Work Will Get You There? must yield to ?Be Politically Savvy.? ?Play It Safe? must give way to ?Play to Win.? ?Ask Permission? must be replaced by ?Proceed Until Apprehended.? And ?Be Modest? must be superseded by ?Project Personal Power.? This breakthrough book: · Features the results of over 1,700 interviews with executives in Fortune 1000 companies, as well as the authors? new research and ongoing work with over 5,000 professional women · Showcases previously-untold stories from high profile women including Ann Moore (CEO, Time Inc.), Susan Ivey (CEO, Reynolds American), Cathy Bessant (Global Executive for Technology and Operations for Bank of America), Lynn Ford (CEO, ING Solutions), and more · Reveals what it really takes for any woman to succeed at the highest levels This hands-on guide is for women who are ready to transform their assumptions and join the senior ranks of American business. Foreword by Sharon Allen (Chairman, Deloitte)."
"Everything that we've been told about women succeeding in the workplace-from leaning in to throwing out the idea of being 'nice girls'-misses the true key that puts women ahead: influence. Leadership experts Kathryn Heath, Jill Flynn, Mary Davis Holt, and Diana Faison create an airtight case for the importance of the influence effect.
It's pure myth that women need to be more aggressive to succeed. Since the time when Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In was first published in 2013, one thing has become strikingly clear: leaning in simply isn't enough to turn the tide. To the contrary, studies show that imitating male behavior doesn't translate to professional advancement for women. The distinctive missing link is influence.
In every industry, from private equity investing to network television, women are underrepresented at the top and underpaid across the board and throughout their careers. The gap in the literature about what puts women ahead is influence-the capacity to have an impact on agendas and outcomes. Influence is more important to the women we work with than power itself.
The Influence Effect focuses on building influence that will enable women to gain traction in their careers and to achieve the advancement they deserve. The tools in this book are geared to help women rise above the politics of business and succeed on their own terms by achieving greater influence. Women have goals they want to achieve and ideas they can champion through change, and influence is the currency they need to make that happen."
