How Women Mean Business A Step by Step Guide to Profiting from Gender Balanced Business

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-24
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

Why Women Mean Business showed you why business needs to change. Now Avivah Wittenberg-Cox's new book shows you how to achieve a healthy and profitable balance.We know that business needs more women. Gender balance has been proven time and time again to lead to more innovation, better business performance and corporate governance. The only question is, how can business leaders make this happen?Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, an acknowledged world authority on women and business, points the way. In four simple steps she provides guidance on how to bring about real change:- Audit - where are you really at with gender balance now?- Awareness - Opening your eyes to what better gender balance could mean for your company- Alignment - Ensuring the buy-in that will bring about real results and change- Sustain - Building gender diversity into corporate DNAThis lively, hands-on guide is packed with research and case-studies showing how some of the world's biggest blue-chip firms have done it.Women are most of the talent and much of the market - you need this book.

Author Biography

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of the leading gender consultancy, 20-first, and a world authority on leadership, gender and business, points the way in four simple steps: Audit, Awareness, Align and Sustain.

Table of Contents

Dedicationp. vii
Forewordp. ix
Acknowledgementsp. xiii
Introductionp. 1
Auditp. 15
What's the Balance?p. 17
What Do Others Do?p. 49
What Do We Say?p. 77
Awarenessp. 95
Why Should Business Care?p. 97
Leading Gender Bilingualp. 129
Working Gender Bilingualp. 159
The Action Planp. 191
Alignmentp. 213
Trainingp. 215
Talentp. 235
Marketsp. 275
Sustainp. 315
Communicatingp. 317
Measuringp. 339
Rewardingp. 355
Conclusionp. 369
Notesp. 373
Bibliographyp. 387
Indexp. 395
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