Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Women in Business

Mireille Guiliano, internationally bestselling author of French Women Don't Get Fat and former senior executive for Veuve Clicquot, uses her distinctive French woman's philosophy and style to share lively lessons, stories, and helpful hints from her experiences at the front lines and highest echelons of the business world. Guiliano offers every reader the...

- Understand the gender divide

- Balance your business for better bottom line results

- Find out how companies are implementing balance - and making it work

Praise for Why Women Mean Business

..".gives example after example of the price that we all pay...

Have you ever observed the personal and professional successes of others and wondered, "Why not me?" Or have you longed for greater success but felt daunted by the amount of work you think it will take?

Becoming a true leader and unearthing your potential doesn't have to be hard. It begins with developing a keen sense of self-awareness, an understanding of who you are. Once you recognize your true self, you can harness these insights to help you enjoy a lifetime of success.

Luckily, you do not have to figure everything yourself. In her new book, author Karen Mooney, MBA, ACC,...

In the 1990s, women in record numbers looked to Wall Street as a great place to build successful and lucrative careers.What many of them found there was not meritocracy, but a boy's club of misbehaving stockbrokers, and a workplace culture that knew no bounds in its harassment and discriminating behavior toward women. Sometimes it was threatening language; other times it was physical intimidation; but often, it was much worse. Eventually, women who were subjected to this behavior exploited a loophole in stock-exchange rules and opened the door to unprecedented lawsuits that shook Wall...

There is abundant proof that women in senior positions can make boardrooms "smarter" and companies more successful. And with a mastery of transformational and transactional roles, women possess a far larger behavioral repertoire to deal with stress than men an advantage in any crisis situation. Even so, the glass ceiling still exists.

"Developing Women Leaders in Corporate America: Balancing Competing Demands, Transcending Traditional Boundaries" focuses on the research-based Competing Values Framework (CVF), an organizing schema that enables leaders to assess empirically personal...