Mother Leads Best : 50 Women Who Are Changing the Way Organizations Define Leadership, Used [Hardcover]

Increasingly, women who are moms are gaining power within organizations, and their performance has been nothing short of remarkable. Their ability to nurture, manage conflict, and network are just some of the skills contributing to their success - skills that are especially valuable in times that call for greater empathy and trust. Indeed, fully half of Fortune magazine's top 20 most powerful women are mothers. tenure as one of the highest-ranking women at AT&T's prestigious Bell Laboratories, Motorola, and Dell, examines the issue of mothers and leadership. Mother Leads Best documents the dramatic changes that take place in an executive woman's leadership style after she has children. It shares the stories of success-driven women who, prior to having kids, were demanding and rigid, and afterwards became much more inspiring and flexible. survey and one-on-one interviews with 50 moms who are CEOs or senior executives at Fortune 100 companies, including Elizabeth Allen, VP, Dell; Ursula Burns, president, Xerox; Meg Whitman, CEO, eBay; Deb Henretta, president, Procter & Gamble; and Maria Magner, senior VP, Microsoft. Readers can follow these examples to become more successful and productive leaders at work, and along the way will learn: Myths and misconceptions about mothers and leadership; How motherhood helps shed the ice queen image; Why mothering skills match the change-management skills required in today's workplace; How the multiple crises of motherhood can help a woman think analytically and act instinctively

Mother Leads Best : 50 Women Who Are Changing the Way Organizations Define Leadership, Used [Hardcover]