Women Management Leadership

Women receive 2 percent of venture funding and make up 9 percent of VC partners, yet research shows that companies with female leaders and board members outperform all-male companies. Changing Tides brings together experienced female venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders who share their expertise and tactical guidance through a collection of essays. This audiobook is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to win - or support a woman to win - at the heavily stacked entrepreneur and funding game.

In Aim High: Chart Your Course and Find Success, Deborah James shares her personal and professional challenges, outcomes, strategies for success, and the problem-solving principles she used to overcome the daunting pressures, threats, and challenges that come with rising to the top of the US Armed Forces. As a supplement to her storytelling, Bain and Company, a top-tier management consulting firm, offers research and statistics that prove James's insights have widespread impact.

The good news is that many of the things you can do to be a better manager for women are easy. In The Good Boss, CEO and business consultant Kate Eberle Walker offers timely, tactical advice based on her experience coaching managers, as well as the lessons she learned working her own way up the corporate ladder. Eberle Walker outlines nine straightforward rules that any manager can follow to help the women on their team - whether they oversee one, 100, or 1,000 employees.

Este audiolivro mostra como as mulheres podem chegar lá, quais os principais desafios e qual é o estilo de liderança feminino. Além de informações e pesquisas atualizadas, Leny Kyrillos e Cássia Godoy trazem o relato (e excelentes dicas) de 13 profissionais renomadas em diferentes áreas de atuação.Mulheres vêm conquistando posições de poder nas mais diversas áreas. Essa conquista, dura e lenta, esbarra em diversas barreiras culturais, mas é possível. E mais do que isso: é desejável para empresas e sociedade.

Breaking Through "Bitch" takes an innovative, sometimes controversial approach, using stories from executives at the highest corporate levels to show how women can hone their innate skills, rise to the top, and be effective, outstanding leaders. It addresses head-on why women cannot and should not "act like men."

When Tessa decided to leave the corporate world and start her own business, there was no turning back! The Classy Hustle will help you bring your dream of entrepreneurship to reality. It will help you overcome the thoughts that have held you back and unleash the mindset that changes your life for the better.

Olympian and international best-selling author Esmie Lawrence has been where you are: stressed out, afraid, overwhelmed, and unhappy with her life. In this powerful book, she shares her life experiences and how, by embracing her challenges, she turned her life around and created a proven process to help others do the same. If she can do it, you can too!

There are so many people who have been exactly where you are and they’ve made their dreams come true. In fact, there are 582 million entrepreneurs in the entire world. Who’s to say you can’t be one too? Some of these entrepreneurs started online businesses that have become some of the biggest brands in the world. These online business owners have managed to turn their hobbies and interests into full-fledged gigs that have now become their lives.

The Unapologetic Woman is the answer for any woman who wants to get ahead. Sure, there are barriers out there, some real, some self-created, yet they can be eradicated with the sage strategies and savvy wisdom that Danita Johnson Hughes reveals from her years of turning organizations around with her leadership strength. Now, her experiences and words become a mentor for your journey.

What if the leadership practices we’ve worked so hard to master are now getting in the way? In fact, what if they are actually holding us down and preventing us from leading for growth and innovation? Forget “what if” - it’s happening. In Leadership Unchained, Sara Canaday offers a unique perspective that helps modern leaders break free from the chains of conventional wisdom and blaze new trails toward even greater success.

Imposter. Liar. Wannabe. Those were the thoughts that hammered what speck of confidence I had left every morning as I stared at my reflection in the mirror. Often, I’d watch the woman staring back at me transform into a little girl.

Nora Castro was invited to meet with the senior executive team at her new company. In a boardroom where Castro was the only female in attendance, the president asked for big ideas to save the firm from their shrinking footprint in the industry. Castro’s hand shot up. “I have the answer!” When she was ignored, she responded in a loud voice, “What percentage of executives in our firm are women?” Without acknowledging her, the president called an end to the meeting and the men walked out, leaving Castro sitting alone.

Are you caught in a cycle of confusion, uncertainty, and pain? Knocked Down, Set Straight will take you on a transformational journey of turning your life's pain into your ultimate gain! In this hilarious guide to mindfulness, spiritual teacher and thought leader Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, Esq. serves up ways to balance your mind (IQ), heart (EQ), and soul (SQ) and merge them into what she eloquently explains as the aggregate intelligence quotient (AQ)™.

Strategies for Being Visible: 14 Profile-Raising Ideas for Emerging Female Leaders is a practical audiobook providing inspiration for women in early and middle leadership positions. The book will help motivate and equip them with the confidence, skills, and strategies they require to be more visible at work and raise their profile.

Women are acculturated within systems that encourage them to sabotage one another; this book shows how they can break free of this cultural programming and use whatever privilege and power they have to raise each other up. Joy Wiggins and Kami Anderson advocate that the only way women can successfully support each other is by addressing the varying intersections of our individual power and privileges, particularly focusing on how some privileges are inherited along lines of race, class, sexuality, and geography.

Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures - at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, both large and small. So why is there a lack of clear-cut, expert advice aimed at this dynamic female audience?

Forty strong women from various ages, backgrounds and experiences have come together to share the most personal times in their lives. Listen in as these women 16-35 years of age each contribute a chapter about a hard time they have gone through and what they did to get through it. These stories will help motivate and inspire you through any hard time in your life. Your life is about to take a change for the better!

Dion Lim has seen it all. As an Asian American woman in the hyper-competitive, White- and male-dominated business of TV news, her career path required a powerful blend of street smarts, determination, and a willingness to learn from mistakes-all of which she learned on the job. Today, she's an ABC anchor in one of the biggest cities in the country. In Make Your Moment, Dion guides you through what she has learned on the career battlefield and what it means for other working women today.

Inspired to extend a helping hand to ambitious women working in corporate America, a veteran executive offers honest, practical, slightly irreverent advice about navigating companies that are run and populated predominately by men: how to interpret their sometimes surprising behavior, avoid common mistakes, flourish with the good guys, deal with the bad guys, and nurture a wonderful, satisfying career in a non-traditional role.

As a woman, navigating your career path can be challenging. At times you're faced with lack of support, unconscious bias and negative assumptions, disruptive career pauses, and more. So how can you get beyond these obstacles and progress your career in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling? Taking Charge of Your Career helps listeners navigate the tricky territory of charting a rewarding career path. Whether you're new to the workforce, reentering after a pause, or trying to find your way through a midcareer slump, you'll find research, advice, and practical tips to help you move forward.