Women in CI

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Women's Leadership Books

In order to help grow our leadership skills, it would be helpful to recommend books that you have read that have helped you to develop as a woman and a leader.
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    Eliana Benjumeda

    Thanks for recommending "Nice Girls Don't get the Corner Office". I had in on my hands in a bookstore and I was tempted to buy it but not completely sure. I will do it next time.

    Instead I got "The Nonverbal Advantage" by Carol Kinsey Goman which is good to find out many interesting things about how to read the position of feet, the way of walking, how to seat around a meeting table, etc. We can express confidence, assertiveness, status, authority or just the contrary in each one of these little things. She also mentions Joe Navarro theories. I enjoyed it.
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      Melanie Wing

      I started this and then never posted some books that I enjoyed and found helpful.

      How to Say it For Women by: Phyllis Mindell Made me concious of how I use languange everyday.
      Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top by Nina Disesa - entertaining reading about a woman making it to the top in Advertising
      The Oz Principle -- A classic book about taking ownership. Has helped me both professionally and personally!
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        Heather Disher

        Thanks Babette, I've picked up a few tips from the drlois website. I recently read Life Law and Not Enough Shoes by Judith Fordham it's a sometimes comical view of her life as a beaten wife, returning to school mother who becomes not only a key lawyer (and the only female one) in Australia to start the forensic movement. It's not written that well - certainly better than I could ever do but I was really impressed with Judith's attutidue and her humour. I have to saw that of the dozen or so books I've read in 2009 it's the most inspiral story so far.