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HBR's 10 must reads on women and leadership.

Harvard Business Review Press, (issuing body.).

Summary:

What will it take for us to create a more equal workplace where women too can shine? If you read nothing else on leadership and gender in the workplace, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where workplace gender equality is today--and how far we have to go. This book will inspire you to: - Understand the root causes of the barriers that exist around gender in the workplace - Check your own biases and discern between confidence and competence in your colleagues - Manage a more effective gender diversity program - Explore what it means to be a feminist today - Understand the issues that women face when speaking up about bias or harassment in the workplace - Better understand the path that women must take to leadership-- Provided by publisher

Record details

ISBN: 9781633696723 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1633696723 (Paperback)
Physical Description: 205 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Bonus article: Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR interview"--Cover.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Women and the labyrinth of leadership / by Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli -- Do women lack ambition? / by Anna Fels -- Women rising: the unseen barriers / by Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb -- Women and the vision thing / by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru -- The power of talk: who gets heard and why / by Deborah Tannen -- The memo every woman keeps in her desk / by Kathleen Reardon -- Why diversity programs fail / by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev -- Now what? / by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock -- The battle for female talent in emerging markets / by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid -- Off-ramps and on-ramps: keeping talented women on the road to success / by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce -- Bonus: Sheryl Sandberg: the HBR interview -- An interview with Sheryl Sandberg by Adi Ignatius.