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Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership (with Bonus Article Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview)

Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership (with Bonus Article Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview)

By Harvard Business Review, Herminia Ibarra, Deborah Tannen, Joan C Williams, Joan C Williams, and Sylvia Ann Hewlett

What will it take for us to create a more equal workplace where women too can shine. If you read nothing else on leadership and gender in the workplace, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where workplace gender equality is today--and how far we have to go.

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Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publish Date: 11/13/2018
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781633696723
ISBN-10: 1633696723
Language: English

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What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?

If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Better understand the path women must take to leadership
  • Learn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplace
  • Check your own gender biases and distinguish between confidence and competence in your colleagues
  • Manage a more effective gender-diversity program
  • Recognize the issues women face when speaking up about bias or harassment
  • Help women reenter the workforce after taking time off--and create opportunities for them to reach their ambitions.

This collection of articles includes Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership, by Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli; Do Women Lack Ambition? by Anna Fels; Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers, by Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb; Women and the Vision Thing, by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why, by Deborah Tannen; The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk, by Kathleen Reardon; Why Diversity Programs Fail, by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; Now What? by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock; The Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid; Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce; and Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview, by Sheryl Sandberg and Adi Ignatius.

About the Authors

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 12 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.

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Herminia Ibarra is Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

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Deborah Tannen is the acclaimed author of You Just Don't Understand , which was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly four years; the New York Times bestsellers You're Wearing THAT.

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Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Described by the New York Times Magazine as having something approaching rock star status in her field, she has played a central role in debates over structural inequality for decades.

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Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Described by the New York Times Magazine as having something approaching rock star status in her field, she has played a central role in debates over structural inequality for decades.

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Sylvia Ann Hewlett is the founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation, a Manhattan-based think tank where she chairs a task force of eighty-two multinational companies focused on fully realizing the new streams of labor in the global marketplace.

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