How Women Are Transforming Leadership: Four Key Traits Powering Success

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This thought-provoking work examines the traits and stories of influential women throughout history to the present day in order to make the case that women continue to evolve leadership practices for the better. How Women Are Transforming Leadership: Four Key Traits Powering Success delves into the precise skills, characteristics, social programming, and biological designs that make women leadership naturals. Distinguished leadership author Mary Lou Dcosterd identifies four key traits that enable women to excel in even the most challenging of leadership roles, and offers detailed tools and techniques for all leadersmen and women aliketo hone these same traits in themselves. This book explores the idea that a specific set of feminine engendered skillsintuitive orientation, directive force, empowering intent, and assimilative naturecreates leaders with the greater breadth and depth of skills needed for our complex, global, and virtual times. With more than 100 of the world's most powerful women cited, readers will learn precisely what enabled these women to become major players on the world's stage. Interviews with four leadership development experts add power to the book's voice and message.

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Mary Lou Dcosterd, PhD, is founder and managing executive of the Lead Life Institute, a leadership psychology consultancy group.