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Inspiring Must Read for Corporate Leadership, June 10, 2010
This review is from: The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work (Paperback)
This book is an incredibly masterful detailing of how corporations can tap the power of women and their unique skillset to create a more positive, inclusive, globally competitive workplace.
Helgesen and Johnson have created an insightful and visionary book about the value of workforce diversity and what organizations can do to support women in leadership positions.
The book is applicable to non-profits, corporations, educational and government organizations. We would be well served if this book was available at every university business leadership library as well as every high school library.
Uplifting, inspiring and a must read!
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What Women See: An Underdeveloped Resource in Business, February 28, 2011
This review is from: The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work (Paperback)
Is what women see- what they notice and value and how they perceive the world in operation - a great underexploited resource in organizations? In this book Sally Helgesen once again helps us all know that we already know - that the answer is unequivocally yes.
Sally, and her coauthor Julie Johnson, were surprised by the results of the study they conducted to determine what women most deeply value and how this might conflict with what mainstream organizations expect their leaders to value. Could this discrepancy be what leads so many experienced and well-regarded women to either leave senior positions or watch their career stall out?
In Female Vision they demonstrate a frustrating connection between the kind of values and vision women bring to work and the kind of receptivity or even invitation that they don't receive. Yet, these very values and perceptions are what organizations need to thrive in today's fast changing, boundary dissolving, unsustainable world.
They concluded that women bring a focus on what really matters in life - satisfaction day by day, a broad spectrum perspective that takes multiple factors into account, and an interest in constantly building and tending to the social fabric of the organization and its many stakeholders. Isn't this 21st Century Leadership that works?
Yet, for the most part organizations do not recognize or value what women see as well as what they do. Until they do, talented women will continue to leave organizations and find new opportunities where their skills, talents, and wisdom are valued. It's hard to feel motivated when your skills, talents, and unique perspective are left out of the key strategy and decision-making sessions. The costs to organizations include not only turn over and retraining. They are also missing critical diversity in approach, values, and vision.
Read this book to discover whether you value female vision and learn how to invite it into your own organization and life. It's worth it.
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Beautifully written case, November 14, 2010
This review is from: The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work (Paperback)
Helgesen and Johnson make a strong case for harnessing the strengths of women. In this beautifully written book, we learn how women notice different things and that we must capture this vision to yield bottom line results. Case examples make the material come alive.
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