Why the Best Man for the Job Is A Woman: The Unique Female Qualities of Leadership

ISBN: 0066619890

Author: Wachs Book, Esther

Condition: New

Playing With The Big Boys -- And Beating Them At Their Own Game!From Meg Whitman of eBay to Marcy Carsey of Carsey-Warner and Oxygen Media, today's leading businesswomen show how to make it in the notorious boys' club of corporate America.Gone are the days when men called the shots. More and more women have replaced men or excelled over rivals in male-dominated industries because they possess the qualities of leadership that top firms are seeking today. Esther Wachs Book introduces the new Female Leader and reveals the seven key, and uniquely female, qualities of leadership that are turning the world around -- and allowing more women to achieve success.Filled with compelling insights gleaned from the country's highest-ranking businesswomen, Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman reveals how these exceptional women have soared to the top and captures their strategies for success.

• Fourteen successful female business leaders are profiled here, and several of the best and brightest detail their paths and approaches to leadership in the new economy. The characteristics these women share include having a high level of self-confidence, being risk takers, instinctively anticipating change, capitalizing on understanding customer service, and using their femininity to manage employees and attract customers. Book, a seasoned journalist, identifies as embodying the essence of this new paradigm of leadership such women as Ellen Gordon of Tootsie Roll Industries, Meg Whitman of eBay, Inc., and Darla Moore of Rainwater, Inc. The stories of these pioneers show how women are reinventing management rules and redefining the meaning of power in today's corporate world. All business collections would benefit from owning this unique