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The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

Sally Helgesen

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Now in Currency paperback -- Sally Helgesen's classic study of female leaders and how their strategies represent a highly successful revision of male leadership styles. Sixty thousand copies in print! In her bestselling 1990 book, Sally Helgesen discovered that men and women approach work in fundamentally different ways. Many of these differences hold distinct advantages for women, who excel at running organizations that foster creativity, cooperation, and intuitive decision-making power, necessities for companies of the twenty-first century. Helgesen's findings reveal that organizations run by women do not take the form of the traditional hierarchical pyranaid, but more closely resemble a web, where leaders reach out, not down, to form an interrelating matrix built around a central purpose. The strategy of the web concentrates power at the center by drawing others closer and by creating communities where information sharing is essential. She presents her findings through unique, closely detailed accounts of four successful women business leaders -- Frances Hesselbein of Girl Scouts USA, Barbara Grogan of Western Industrial Contractors, Nancy Badore of Ford Motor Company's Executive Development Center, and Dorothy Brunson of Brunson Communications. Helgesen observes their meetings, listens to their phone calls and conferences, and reads their correspondence. Her "diary studies" document how women leaders make decisions, schedule their days, gather and disperse information, motivate others, delegate tasks, structure their companies, hire, and fire. She chronicles how their experiences as women -- wives, mothers, friends, sisters, daughters -- contributeto their leadership style.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 1995
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.56in - 0.70in - 0.80lb
  • EAN: 9780385419116
  • Categories: • Business Communication - General• Management - General• Leadership

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About the Author

Sally Helgesen is the author of the bestsellers The Web of Inclusion and The Female Advantage, which was hailed as "the classic work" on women managers. A national speaker on issues of social and economic change, she began her career as a journalist and later wrote and consulted for a number of Fortune 500 cilents. Articles about her work and influence have been featured in the New York Times and Business Week. She lives in Chatham, New York.

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The Thinkers50 is an organization dedicated to recognizing ideas and thinkers in business and management.

@SallyHelgesen, named a world expert on women’s leadership by @Forbes, is a best-selling author, speaker, and leadership coach. She was inducted into the #Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2022, and now her book, The Female Advantage, is on our Classics Booklist: https://t.co/xH0iO7VZy8

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Extreme Humanism/Don’t get leaders who don’t get it that Job #1 is helping others grow/Design that inspires in everything we do/More women in charge/Navy Seabee

@SallyHelgesen And I love your book💥💥💥💥(People still constantly talk about In Search of Excellence, 41 years old. In a parallelism, when it comes to Sally Helgesen, I still talk about the 28-year-old The Female Advantage, which dramatically changed my professional life.)

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Thinkers50
@thinkers50
1 year

The Thinkers50 is an organization dedicated to recognizing ideas and thinkers in business and management.

@SallyHelgesen, named a world expert on women’s leadership by @Forbes, is a best-selling author, speaker, and leadership coach. She was inducted into the #Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2022, and now her book, The Female Advantage, is on our Classics Booklist: https://t.co/xH0iO7VZy8

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Tom Peters
@tom_peters
2 years

Extreme Humanism/Don’t get leaders who don’t get it that Job #1 is helping others grow/Design that inspires in everything we do/More women in charge/Navy Seabee

@SallyHelgesen And I love your book💥💥💥💥(People still constantly talk about In Search of Excellence, 41 years old. In a parallelism, when it comes to Sally Helgesen, I still talk about the 28-year-old The Female Advantage, which dramatically changed my professional life.)

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