Dancing on the Glass Ceiling : Tap into Your True Strengths, Activate Your Vision, and Get What You Really Want out of Your Career - Hardcover

Candy Deemer; Nancy Fredericks

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9780071406949: Dancing on the Glass Ceiling : Tap into Your True Strengths, Activate Your Vision, and Get What You Really Want out of Your Career

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ISBN 10: 0071406948 ISBN 13: 9780071406949

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2002

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How to play it like a woman and succeed "The authors have written a wonderful, insightful book to guide women to the top of the pyramid, and to their fullest potential as leaders and women in the fullest sense of both terms."��Mark Bryan, author of The Artists' Way at Work "Freeing, insightful, validating, and best of all, practical. Any woman who reads this book will be forever changed by it."��Patricia Aburdene, author of Megatrends for Women "Dancing on the Glass Ceiling is a joy of discovery for professional women."��Rikki Klieman, anchor, Court TV Going against the grain of three decades of popular business thinking, Dancing on the Glass Ceiling contends that women have been shooting themselves in the foot by trying to play like a man. Backed by research, interviews, and real-life experiences, authors Candy Deemer and Nancy Fredericks explain why relying instead on feminine-based skills such as intuition, relationship building and communication is more likely to get a woman where she wants to go in business��above the glass ceiling. Written in a friendly tone and featuring quizzes and self-assessments, Dancing on the Glass Ceiling is a workshop in a book that gives women the inspiration and practical tools to help them truly transform their careers and their futures.

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How did 'Paramount Pictures' Sherry Lansing, Ogilvy and Mather's Shelly Lazarus, and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor make it to the top? Not by "playing like a man"! As you'll discover in Dancing on the Glass Ceiling, mimicking the macho leadership styles of successful businessmen may help you climb your way to the middle, but if you want to soar into the stratosphere of upper management, you have to play like a woman.

This comprehensive workshop-in-a-book shows you how successful women have reached their lifelong goals by relying on inherent, feminine-based strengths to distinguish themselves as leaders. Here you will find practical techniques for maximizing your feminine skills, including communication, team- and relationship- building, intuition, and the supportive mind-set that nurtures both companies and employees.

Authors Candy Deemer and Nancy Fredericks use real-life stories and advice from highly successful women and in-depth research to illustrate the effectiveness of this more natural feminine pathway to success. The book's insights, exercises, and techniques will help you strengthen and refine your innate feminine-based skills. You'll learn how to:

Develop the confidence to be yourself as you pursue and achieve your true goals
Identify your strengths and weaknesses through self-discovery exercises and introspection
Work effectively with the less-than-perfect boss
Match a company's corporate culture with your own personality
Maximize the right brain, feminine skills that make you a dynamic leader
Transform even the most mundane position into a fulfilling job
Reinvent your skills as you move to higher management positions
Bring more harmony into your career and your personal life

Why try to beat men at their own game when you can succeed so brilliantly by playing like a woman? Read and experience Dancing on the Glass Ceiling; learn to celebrate the powers you already possess and use them to make your dreams come true.

Go against the grain--and win--with the acclaimed wisdom of Dancing on the Glass Ceiling

"The authors have written a wonderful, insightful book to guide women to the top of the pyramid and to their fullest potential as leaders and women in the fullest sense of both terms."
--Mark Bryan, author of The Artists' Way at Work

"Freeing, insightful, validating, and, best of all, practical. Any woman who reads this book will be forever changed by it."
--Patricia Aburdene, author of Megatrends for Women

"Dancing On the Glass Ceiling shatters the old paradigms about women not being able to truly thrive in the male dominated corporate hierarchy. This book will help career women design the work life they want and better yet, it will show them how to succeed at it. Dancing On the Glass Ceiling is not about male-bashing; rather, it's about female empowerment. Congrats on a refreshing approach to success by showing that women can be women in business...you go girls!"
--Neale S. Godfrey, author of New York Times #1 bestseller, Money Doesn't Grow On Trees: A Parent's Guide To Raising Financially Responsible Children and Mom, Inc.: Taking Your Work Skills Home and Making Change--a woman's guide to designing her financial future

About the Author:

Nancy Fredericks is the founder and president of Nancy Fredericks International, a leading corporate consulting firm. Her clients include Paramount Pictures and Unilever/Helene Curtis.

Candy Deemer worked for 20 years in advertising in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles and was the first woman to rise to various executive positions at DDB Communications Worldwide in Los Angeles.

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