Hirons Library : Leadership: Women

Women and Leadership

Women and Leadership by Deborah L. Rhode
ISBN: 9780190614713

Publication Date: 2016-11-01

Eminent legal scholar Deborah L. Rhode focuses on women's underrepresentation in leadership roles and asks why it persists and what we can do about it. Rhode explores the reasons, including women's family roles, unconscious gender bias, and exclusion from professional development networks.
Designed Leadership by Moura Quayle
ISBN: 9780231173124

Publication Date: 2017-07-18

Lessons learned from the world of design, when applied to management, can turn leaders into collaborative, creative, deliberate, and accountable visionaries. Design thinking loosens the mind and activates innovation. It creates the conditions for employees to thrive and for all kinds of businesses to succeed.
Answering the Call by Beverly L. Bower; Mimi Wolverton
ISBN: 9781579222543

Publication Date: 2009-03-30

This book presents the stories, and the reflections on their paths to leadership in higher education, of seven African American women. Each has been the first woman, first African American, or first African American woman in one or more of the positions of authority that she has held. Each has overcome the double bind of sexism and racism that can inhibit the professional attainment of African American women.
Junctures in Women's Leadership - Business by Stina Soderling, et al (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780813565941

Publication Date: 2016-05-23

Junctures in Women's Leadership: Business highlights the professional accomplishments of twelve remarkable women and examining how they responded to critical leadership challenges.
Truth Without Tears by Carolyn R. Hodges; Olga M. Welch; H. Richard Milner (Editor); Earl Braxton (Afterword by)
Call Number: LB2341 .H565 2018

ISBN: 9781682531723

Publication Date: 2018-05-08

Truth Without Tears is a timely and insightful portrait of Black women leaders in American colleges and universities. Carolyn R. Hodges and Olga M. Welch are former deans who draw extensively on their experience as African American women to account for both the challenges and opportunities facing women of color in educational leadership positions.
Leadership Secrets of Hillary Clinton by Rebecca Shambaugh
Call Number: HD57.7 .S475 2010

ISBN: 9780071664172

Publication Date: 2010-03-05

Ask yourself: Do I bounce back from challenging situations? Do I know how to learn from my mistakes? Do I make my words count? Do I embrace change and take advantage of new opportunities? In Leadership Secrets of Hillary Clinton, leadership expert Rebecca Shambaugh reveals the unique formula of open-mindedness, intense focus, authenticity, and resilience that allows Hillary to answer "yes" to all of these questions and that has led to her historic rise onto the world stage.
The Next Generation of Women Leaders by Selena Rezvani
Call Number: HD6054.3 .R49 2010

ISBN: 9780313376665

Publication Date: 2009-12-22

A groundbreaking, empowering collection of advice--richly illustrated with the stories of women at top echelons of their fields--that advances the leadership outlook for Generation X and Y women like no book before it.
The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux by Ina J. Fandrich
ISBN: 9780415972505

Publication Date: 2005-04-21

This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong female leaders.