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Using case studies of top-level women and research in the field, Women at the Top breaks new ground and offers new insight into how women can create dually-successful lives. explores the work histories, motivation, leadership styles, mentors, and family backgrounds of a diverse assortment of top-level women includes the case studies of the President of Old Navy/Gap, the Chairman of Deloitte and Touche, the VP of IBM operations, a Supreme Court Judge in China, President of Legislative Council in Hong Kong, several university presidents, and more weighs the positive effects of multiple roles and positive and negative work-life spill over discusses strategies for success (e.g., scaling back, juggling), the need for social support, and the importance of cultural context
The Sleeping Beauty in Roberta Seelinger Trites' intriguing text is no silent snoozer passively waiting for Prince Charming to energize her life. Instead she wakes up all by herself and sets out to redefine the meaning of “happily ever after.” Trites investigates the many ways that Sleeping Beauty's newfound voice has joined other strong female voices in feminist children's novels to generate equal potentials for all children. Waking Sleeping Beauty explores issues of voice in a wide range of children's novels, including books by Virginia Hamilton, Patricia MacLachlan, and Cynthia Voight as well as many multicultural and international books. Far from being a limiting genre that praises f...
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Conciliar lar e carreira, além de cuidar de si mesma, é uma tarefa que exige dedicação, paciência e sabedoria. Por este motivo, a maioria das mulheres decide seguir apenas um dos caminhos. Com o intuito de revolucionar este paradigma, as autoras Diane F. Halpern e Fanny M. Cheung reuniram depoimentos de profissionais influentes, que enfrentaram desafios e superaram diversas limitações culturais, a fim de mostrar que é possível a conciliação de maneira bem-sucedida. A partir de suas trajetórias, o livro constrói um olhar extremamente inspirador sobre o espaço da mulher na era atual, oferecendo-lhe valiosas sugestões. Mulheres no topo mostra como é possível superar um dos principais dilemas vividos pelas mulheres na sociedade contemporânea: ser uma boa mãe e esposa e, ao mesmo tempo, conquistar o sucesso profissional.
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Leadership matters more than ever in this turbulent moment in American higher education. During these unprecedented times, glaring internal inefficiencies, communication breakdowns, and an overriding sense of cultural inertia on many campuses are too often set against a backdrop of changing consumer preferences, high sticker prices, declining demand, massive tuition discounting, aging infrastructure, technological and pedagogical alternatives, and political pressure. Strategic leadership in such a complex environment needs to be exercised in nuanced ways that differ from those embraced by corporate cultures. In Leadership Matters, W. Joseph King and Brian C. Mitchell argue that the success o...
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