Description
Book SynopsisIn this provocative book, Margaret Heffernan, former CEO and
Fast Company contributor, fuses her own experience with that of hundreds of women to identify the biggest challenges and the best solutions that women face today. From VPs of Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs to women just starting their careers, she traces the patterns and themes underlying women''s power, choices, love, sex, money, and many other vital topics for working women. Without sugar-coating the facts, preaching, or oversimplifying, she offers solutions and shares the truth about the working world: women''s choices are limited, you can''t have it all, women do work differently from men and, yes, it is possible to find success amidst all of this and feel good about it.
Finally! A book that exposes the masculine myths about what it takes to be effective in business and helps women reclaim the relational intelligence we have been taught to ignore. A must-read for all women who want to increase their pow
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Participants xiii
Introduction 1
1 Start Smart 6
2 Geishas, Bitches, Guys—and the Invisible Woman 26
3 Balls to the Wall: Toxic Bosses and Hostile Environments 52
4 The Emperor's New Clothes 77
5 Power and Where It Comes From 93
6 Sex, Love, and a Vision for Life 120
7 The Whole Life 139
8 How High Can You Go? 163
9 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do 186
10 The Entrepreneuse 200
11 The Parallel Universe 217
Notes 231
Web Resources 237
Bibliography 241
Acknowledgments 247
The Author 251
Index 253
