Now in Currency paperback -- Sally Helgesen's classic study of female
leaders and how their strategies represent a highly successful revision
of male leadership styles. Sixty thousand copies in print! In her
bestselling 1990 book, Sally Helgesen discovered that men and women
approach work in fundamentally different ways. Many of these differences
hold distinct advantages for women, who excel at running organizations
that foster creativity, cooperation, and intuitive decision-making
power, necessities for companies of the twenty-first century. Helgesen's
findings reveal that organizations run by women do not take the form of
the traditional hierarchical pyranaid, but more closely resemble a web,
where leaders reach out, not down, to form an interrelating matrix built
around a central purpose. The strategy of the web concentrates power at
the center by drawing others closer and by creating communities where
information sharing is essential. She presents her findings through
unique, closely detailed accounts of four successful women business
leaders -- Frances Hesselbein of Girl Scouts USA, Barbara Grogan of
Western Industrial Contractors, Nancy Badore of Ford Motor Company's
Executive Development Center, and Dorothy Brunson of Brunson
Communications. Helgesen observes their meetings, listens to their phone
calls and conferences, and reads their correspondence. Her "diary
studies" document how women leaders make decisions, schedule their days,
gather and disperse information, motivate others, delegate tasks,
structure their companies, hire, and fire. She chronicles how their
experiences as women -- wives, mothers, friends, sisters, daughters --
contributeto their leadership style.
