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Dancing on the Glass Ceiling

October 1st, 2008

Tags: Book Reviews · Business & Finance · Life Skills

Book Title: Dancing on the Glass Ceiling - Tap into your true strengths, Activate your vision and Get what you really want out of your career
Author: Candy Deemer and Nancy Fredricks
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Feminine Leaderhip at wor
Some extracts:

feminine based leadership:
  1. be proactive
  2. build relationships upward
  3. build a network
  4. find the solution yourself
powerful goal setting…
  1. move toward something, not away from something
  2. remember to ask for everything
  3. be persistent
  4. relax and release it
  5. visualise yourself living in the outcome
skill sets needed to be successful:
  1. switching form a doer to manager
  2. switching form manager to manager of multiple functions
  3. switching form manager of multiple functions to leader of managers of multiple functions
  4. switching from leader of managers of multiple functions to leader of leaders.
C.A.N.
  1. C stands for Connect
  2. A stands for Acknowledgement
  3. N stands for NurtureĀ 
building rich working relationships:
  • role of status
  • understand the risk of protection
  • nurture, don’t mother
  • use colaboration as a support
  • be friendly, but don’t become friends