Describing five ways in which women typically cope with the business environment, this book tells how women can bring their whole selves, including their feminine sides, to their careers--and make it work. Readers will learn from practical advice, stories and examples how they can move toward a state of "self-alignment".
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Questions for Discussion:
1. What is your process for self discovery? Are you satisfied with it or do you wish to change?
2. Do you feel wounded or constricted by your work life? If so, what message do you take from that experience?
3. What do you truly want from your life? How often do you give yourself quiet time to listen to your deeper voice? What are you pushing away that you need to accept?
4. What are the differences and similarities among women and men at work? What characteristics do you have that you hold back in a work setting? Why?
5. What is "success" at work?
6. Which strategies (Emulator, Trooper, Balancer, Seeker, Integrator) have you used and in which order?
7. What are/were the pros and cons of each?
8. What are the three steps or elements of discovering self-alignment? What experiences with each have you found to be useful and meaningful?
9. What needs to happen for you to move toward a greater measure of self-alignment in your life?
10. How can you help change your corporate culture for the better?
Suggestions for Further Reading:
* Enkelis, Liane and Olsen, Karen, On Our Own Terms: Portraits of Women Business Leaders * Barrentine, Pat, When the Canary Stops Singing: Women's Perspecitves on Transformingin Business * Hateley, Barbara "BJ" and Schmidt, Warren H., A Peacock in The Land of Penguins
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five success strategies, other success strategies, masculine skills, traditional success, masculine approach, higher guidance, male traits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Early Integrators, Late Integrators, Deborah Tannen, Peter Senge, Ram Dass, East Coast, Martia Nelson, One Balancer, One Late Integrator, Robert Fritz, The Systems Thinking Model New!
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- Our Wildest Dreams: Women Entrepeneurs Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good by Joline Godfrey on page 17, page 73, and Back Matter
- You Can Have It All: Creating a Life of Joy and Abundance, 3rd Ed. by Arnold M. Patent on page 27, page 39, and Back Matter
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge on page 26, page 183, and Back Matter
- Women and Men in Management, Third Edition by Professor Gary N Powell on page 108, and Back Matter
- Healing the Shame that Binds You (Recovery Classics) by John Bradshaw on page 36, and Back Matter
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- Opportunities in Business Management Careers by I. Place in Back Matter
- A Is for Abductive by Leonard Sweet on page 327
- Success On Our Own Terms: Tales of Extraordinary, Ordinary Business Women by Virginia O'Brien in Back Matter
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