Power Through Partnership: How Women Lead Better Together

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Nov 3, 2014 - Business & Economics - 168 pages
WINNER OF THE 2015 SILVER MEDAL IPPY AWARD IN BUSINESS/CAREER/SALES.

Betsy Polk and Maggie Chotas have learned something powerful: when women work together they discover a level of support, flexibility, confidence, accountability, and freedom to be themselves that they rarely find in other work relationships. Drawing on their own twelve-year partnership and from interviews with 125 women business partners, Polk and Chotas demolish the myths that keep women from collaborating and offer advice for handling a host of potential challenges. This groundbreaking book shows that when women team up—combining complementary skills, channeling their egos into the partnership, and encouraging each other—they can work as full equals to achieve something that's exponentially greater than each woman alone.
 

Contents

Introduction Out from Under the Radar
1
Chapter 1 Why Partnership Works for Women
13
Chapter 2 What Does Being a Woman Have to Do with It?
31
Chapter 3 Debunking the Myths
45
Chapter 4 Searching for Partners
61
Chapter 5 Preparing for Risks
83
Chapter 6 Leveraging Conflict
99
Chapter 7 The Rubber Band Theory Moving Forward
115
Notes
129
Acknowledgments
133
Contributing Partners
137
About the Authors
143
About the Mulberry Partners
145
Index
147
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Betsy Polk, cofounder of Mulberry Partners, is a facilitator, mediator, and board certified coach who helps organizations, teams, and individuals develop strategies that strengthen collaboration, improve communication, resolve conflict, and achieve goals. Maggie Ellis Chotas is a cofounder of the Mulberry Partners, a consulting firm that helps organizations, teams, and individuals develop strategies to strengthen collaboration, improve communication, resolve conflicts, and cultivate great ideas. Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed Slaughter director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department, the first woman to hold that job. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family which made the Business Book of the Year 2015 shortlist in the UK.