the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities. — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work force. But perhaps even more important than work force numbers is the fact that women - who began this sweeping entry in the mid-seventies - are just now beginning to assume positions of leadership, which give… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share
work is elevated by our daily environment into something that is appropriately done everywhere and at every conceivable moment. — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share
women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
The very technologies that were supposed to free up our time seem instead to be consuming it, tacking hours onto our already extended days.… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
