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How do women actually reach the top? John Bank and Susan Vinnicombe asked nineteen of them. Women With Attitude gathers the first-hand stories of nineteen top-achieving businesswomen — directors and senior leaders who made it to the highest ranks — and draws out the lessons behind their success.
Rather than abstract advice, the book lets these women speak for themselves: the sponsorships they secured, the setbacks they survived, and the deliberate strategies — from building networks to negotiating pay to leading authentically — that carried them upward. Bank and Vinnicombe, both respected researchers of women in leadership, frame each story with sharp analysis that turns experience into actionable insight:elves: the choices they made, the barriers they broke, and the strategies — from networking to negotiating to leading with authenticity — that carried them upward. It is career wisdom grounded in real lives, not theory.
For ambitious professionals and anyone interested in leadership, gender, and the changing face of the boardroom.
How do women actually reach the top of the business world? John Bank and Susan Vinnicombe asked nineteen of them.
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Women With Attitude gathers the first-hand stories of nineteen top-achieving businesswomen — directors and senior leaders who made it to the top ranks — and draws out the lessons behind their success. Rather than abstract advice, the book lets these women speak for themselves: how they handled setbacks, seized opportunities, managed mentors and networks, and navigated the particular pressures of being a woman in the boardroom.
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Vinnicombe, a professor at Cranfield School of Management and one of Britain’s leading researchers on women in leadership, brings academic rigor to the project; the result is both a readable collection of career stories and a grounded guide to what really works. The recurring themes — confidence, visibility, negotiation, and the willingness to take the difficult assignments — emerge from real careers, not theory.
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For women building their own careers, and for managers who want to understand what helps women succeed, this is an unusually honest and practical book: the view from the top, in the words of the women who got there.
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