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Rachel Abramowitz. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood

Jane Alexander Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics
"Alexander had attended her share of protest marches in the 1960s and 1970s, but she had never been involved in mainstream politics and was happily engaged in her acting career when she was asked to consider becoming head of the ever-embattled National Endowment for the Arts. This witty, entertaining account of her tenure there brings a Washington outsider's perspective and an actor's eye for the telling human detail to the often stultifying subject of bureaucratic politics."

Linda Austin, M.D.  What's Holding You Back?
"Why, after 30 years of feminism do women continue to underachieve, occupying only 10 percent of top-level managerial and professional positions? Why is significant achievement — influential women leaders and visionaries — rarer still? The oft-blamed glass ceiling, that infamous external obstacle, is no longer the most significant barrier holding women back. This bold and inspiring new book argues that it is the self-imposed psychological glass ceiling — the invisible but powerful thoughts and feelings that stand in the way of real achievement — that influences every decision women make in their lives."

Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever. Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide

Esther Wachs Book  Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman: The Unique Female Qualities of Leadership
[publisher:] "...reveals the seven key uniquely female qualities of leadership...allowing more women to achieve success in arenas that once were not open to them... From Meg Whitman of eBay to Marcy Carsey of Carsey-Werner and Oxygen Media, from Martha Ingram of Ingram Industries to Shelly Lazarus of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, this book is filled with compelling insights gleaned from the country's highest-ranking businesswomen... reveals how these new paradigm leaders excelled and introduces the world to a new breed of leader--The Female Leader--and captures her strategies for success."

Marie Brenner Great Dames : What I Learned from Older Women
"..these ten terrific dames certainly have a lot of lessons to teach us all. Some gained fame through intellectual, artistic, philanthropic or political means, or became an icon because of their sheer flamboyance or the mystery of personality. Several married well. In these short pieces about Constance Baker Motley, Luise Rainer, Jacqueline Onassis, et al., Brenner creates something akin to instant, colorful snapshots."  [review by Emily Mitchell, Time Mag.]

Gervase R. Bushe Ph.D. Clear Leadership
Most people understand the critical role of self-esteem in the lives of people who accomplish and succeed. Without self-esteem even the most talented fail. We know that if we constantly criticize a child, telling them they aren't good enough... they develop an inferiority complex. What happens to a team or organization that gets the same message? What happens to people when most or all of their organizational life is lived in gap land?

Dorothy Cantor and Toni Bernay Women in Power: The Secrets of Leadership

Timothy Conway Women of Power and Grace: Nine Astonishing, Inspiring Luminaries of Our Time

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Good Business : Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning
The best-selling author of Flow interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the book’s premise: "Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heart’s content, while responding to the needs of society." Csikszentmihalyi leverages his definition of "flow"—-the capacity for full engagement in an activity—-to create a blueprint for a workplace in which bringing out the best in workers comes before products and profit. When leaders select and reward employees who find satisfaction at work, they can create an upwardly moral organization. [Amazon.com]

Riane Eisler The Chalice and the Blade : Our History, Our Future

Riane Eisler Sacred Pleasure : Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body- New Paths to Power and Love
"tackles the sexual myths and misconceptions that have corrupted male/female relations over the millennia. In a sweeping canvas, she takes readers back in time to reveal a world where men and women once lived in harmony and where sexuality was a celebrated mystery."

Susan Estrich. Sex & Power

Gail Evans Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success That Women Need to Learn
"The fact that there are few women occupying top-level positions in corporate America has, for a long time, been blamed on a ubiquitous "glass ceiling." But according to Gail Evans, this is a tired myth implying a woman is a "person-who's-done-to instead of a person-who's-doing." ... CNN's ebullient--and successful--executive vice president puts forth a new thesis: women are not in star positions because they haven't yet learned how to play the game."

Helen E. Fisher The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and how They Will Change the World
[from Chapter One:] "Psychologists report, however, that women more regularly think contextually; they take a more "holistic" view of the issue at hand. That is, they integrate more details of the world around them, details ranging from the nuances of body posture to the position of objects in a room. Women's ability to integrate myriad facts is nowhere more evident than in the office. Female executives, business analysts note, tend to approach business issues from a broader perspective than do their male colleagues."

Carol A. Gallagher, PhD. Going to the Top : A Road Map for Success from America's Leading Women Executives
"interviews with 200 women executives... Gallagher shows that the same qualities top male managers have--a desire to win, an ability to learn the complex unwritten rules of an organization, the emulation of role models--are absolutely essential for women, too. One large section of the book debunks female myths of achievement--that a single mentor will lift you to success; that endless networking is productive; that you can't afford to be nice and help others if you want to succeed. ... The last section of the book presents strategies for juggling marriage, family, and career choices, and there's also a chapter for minority women."

Mollie Gregory. Women Who Run the Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood, 1973-2000
Documentary film producer and director Gregory interviews over 100 powerful women who've made their mark in film in this hefty book. She organizes it by decade; thus, the 1970s chapter is called "Beachhead," the '80s is "Securing the Perimeter" and the '90s is "Breakthrough." She investigates the barriers women like The Sting producer Julia Phillips came up against and lauds the accomplishments of Mimi Leder, who directed The Peacemaker. Dense and very thorough. [from Publishers Weekly review]

Molly Haskell. Holding My Own in No Man's Land : Women and Men and Film and Feminists

Sally Helgesen The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
[publisher:] "..classic study of female leaders and how their strategies represent a highly successful revision of male leadership styles... Helgesen discovered that men and women approach work in fundamentally different ways. Many of these differences hold distinct advantages for women... She chronicles how their experiences as women -- wives, mothers, friends, sisters, daughters -- contribute to their leadership style."

James Hillman. Kinds of Power
[reader:] "Hillman describes a wide variety of powers, such as control, ambition, leadership, charisma, tyranny and many more. Hillman gives the reader a different perspective on each form of power. He does not judge certain types of power as being good or bad. He helps us see each kind in a new light. It is Hillman's premise that power resides in our ideas about power. We are ruled by the power of ideas. If we are to become more effective as leaders and managers, we must become aware of how we think about power."

Jean Houston. A Passion for the Possible

Jean Houston. Jump Time: Shaping Your Future In A World of Radical Change

Jennifer James Thinking in the Future Tense
The book identifies eight leadership skills to facilitate the understanding and adaptation to change,
and to develop visionary thinking:
1 Perspective -- sort out the positive and negative aspects of a situation helps us see and understand the future...
2 Pattern Recognition -- look for trends. Clues are found in ideas, sequences of events, or forms of behavior...
3 Cultural Knowledge -- be aware of myths and symbols of a culture. Art is an out picturing of truths that lie beneath the surface of awareness...
4 Flexibility -- learn to adapt to change. Focus on the target not the problem...
5 Vision -- see the foundation of how we live and work
etc - from review by Linda Naiman of Creativity at Work creativityatwork.com

Joseph Jaworski.  Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
Some who are called to adventure choose to go. Others may wrestle for years with fearfulness and denial before they are able to transcend that fear. We tend to deny our destiny because of our insecurity, our dread of ostracism, our anxiety, and our lack of courage to risk what we have. Down deep we know that to cooperate with fate brings great personal power and responsibility. If we engage our destiny, we are yielding to the design of the universe, which is speaking through the design of our own person. In the face of refusal, we continue our restlessness, and then, as if from nowhere, comes the guide: something or someone to help us toward the threshold of adventure. This may take the form of voices within or people who guide us to see the way.

Peter Koestenbaum. Freedom and Accountability at Work: Applying Philosophic Insight to the Real World
To be a leader is to be awake. The leadership mode is one of alertness, urgency, and dissatisfaction at all times. This point is not made often enough -- but it is life's critical success factor in times of crisis as well as in times of peace. Crises awaken us, but what we respond to is not the crisis but life itself. We are not reacting to the disaster but to the disaster our lives were before the terror. > Peter Koestenbaum. - from article: Life After Death [fastcompany.com Oct 2001] by Polly LaBarre

Priscilla Marotta, Ph.D. Power & Wisdom: The New Path For Women
[author:] "Positive power is necessary for your quality of life. Years of clinical work with fascinating, intelligent women energized me to write this book. Socialization patterns subtly position women to avoid power. You cannot have an adequate quality of life without the utilization of "positive power", power-with not power-over. Helping women celebrate their gender, avoid behaviors that mimic men, and activate their power in collaboration with men is my mission."

Mariah Burton Nelson Embracing Victory: How Women Can Compete Joyously, Compassionately, and Successfully in the WorkPlace and on the Playing Field

Peggy Orenstein Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap

M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled and Beyond

Tom Peters. Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age

Robert Rabbin. Invisible Leadership: Igniting the Soul at Work

Sylvia Rimm See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on how 1000 Girls Became Successful Women
[Self Improvement Online:] "Noted child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, along with her daughters, a research psychologist and a pediatric oncology researcher, conducted an extensive three-year survey among more than one thousand satisfied women who have achieved success in their careers. She explored in depth these women's childhoods, adolescences, and young adulthoods.."

Judy B. Rosener America's Competitive Secret: Utilizing Women As a Management Strategy
> related interview with Judy Rosener

Harriet Rubin The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women
[Booklist:] "..Obviously, she borrows more than a page from Machiavelli's 1532 treatise; but her counsel differs from that famous book in many ways. Tips such as "Learn not to be careful" and "Govern according to the nature of femininity" buttress her major theme: that princesses, to "win," must epitomize confrontational cooperation."

Harriet Rubin Soloing : Realizing Your Life's Ambition
"Drawing upon the wisdom of disparate authorities ranging from Peter Drucker and Tom Peters to Joseph Campbell and John Steinbeck, Rubin explores the various attractions, distractions, commitments, and opportunities that face those who drop out of the corporate ranks to go solo. She explains how to know when you're really ready (dreams were a major indicator for her and others, including Nickelodeon founder Geraldine Laybourne), how to handle the inevitable fears (in her case, by working harder than ever while savoring her new-found freedom), and how to get this new career up and running (including suggestions for building a personal "brand," maintaining visibility among clients, and creating effective proposals)."

Linda Seger When Women Call the Shots: The Developing Power and Influence of Women in Television and Film"  [interview]

Matt A. Towery. Powerchicks: How Women Will Dominate America
[author:] No, I am not calling this rising cadre of talented women "Powerchicks." That was a term used by a disgruntled male who was applying for a job with the company I managed several years ago. I was just as stunned by his attitude as I was by that of many of the male politicians with whom I had served in elected office, as well as some of the businessmen with whom I had worked and the attorneys with whom I had practiced. Don't they get it? Women now account for eighty percent of consumer spending, are graduating from college at higher levels than men, vote at higher levels, and have been the key element in this country's rapid economic growth. I interviewed many successful female role models such as Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Penny Marshall, Catherine Crier, as well as numerous other successful or rising female leaders from the areas of politics, entertainment, business, and the equally important "profession" of stay-at-home mothers. "Powerchicks" also includes the results of numerous national focus groups as well as a unique national poll in which America's women explained where they see themselves today and in the future.

Sandra Ford Walston. Courage: The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman : Reclaiming the Forgotten Virtue

Susan Ware Letter to the World : Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century
"..a look at the intimate and public lives of seven strong and vibrant women who had a lasting impact on American popular culture and on women's lives... who influenced not only their professions -- politics, journalism, anthropology [the arts] ... but also the way women saw themselves and their options.."

Margaret Wheatley Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe

Marie C. Wilson. Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World 
When I look at the issues we face, and when I think of the changes we need, I am as convinced as I have ever been that our future depends on the leadership of women - not to replace men, but to transform our options alongside them. Marie C. Wilson is President, Ms. Foundation for Women

Danah Zohar. Rewiring The Corporate Brain: Using The New Science To Rethink How We Structure And Lead Organizations

  

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