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A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap 2008th Edition
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- ISBN-10023053712X
- ISBN-13978-0230537125
- Edition2008th
- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication dateJune 13, 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.5 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
- Print length153 pages
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'The FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme is beginning to have an impact upon the rate of appointment of women to senior executive and non-executive roles in the UK. There is more to do, of course, but this innovative, business-to-business initiative is delivering results. This book is a fine distillation of what has been learned from the Programme.' Sir John Parker, Chairman, National Grid plc.
'Ignoring the benefits of having more talented women in the boardroom is bad business. Having more women means extending the portfolio of skills at the top, providing female role models for younger high potential women and guaranteeing that all levels of management are filled with the best executives, and A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap has some good ideas in all these areas.' Meg Munn, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
'Increasingly European countries are encouraging their businesses to have more women board members. The UK is ahead of much of Europe but still has more to do. The Cross-Company Mentoring Programme is making real progress and this book gives practical help to companies in improving this pan-European business issue.' Peter Erskine, former Chief Executive of O2, non-executive Director of Telefónica
'In business management we are taught that good planning makes for good decisions and that it's the planning, not the plan, that makes the difference. The 'Roadmap' is exactly thekind of tool women executives can use to plan well and make good decisions.' Teresa A. 'Terri' Dial, CEO of Consumer Banking, North America and Global Head of Consumer Strategy, Citigroup Inc.
'If you read only one book this year, make it this one. Whatever your role and gender I guarantee the ideas explored in only 120 pages of pragmatic text will bring rich rewards.' - Anna Allan, People Management
'Wow. This is the book I've been waiting most of my business life for. For my entire career I've had to be taught by individuals. There has been nothing to read that has understood what women feel and challenge how they deal with life at the top. A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom doesn't just pave the way to solving this, it sorts everything out for you. I really felt stirred reading it.' - Elsa Celab, Human Resources
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- Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan; 2008th edition (June 13, 2008)
- Language : English
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- ISBN-13 : 978-0230537125
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The authors use international research on women's progress to outline the opportunity. They then colour it in vibrantly with interviews with FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 Chairmen and CEOs, senior women and Board Directors, and headhunters.
There are three good reasons to read this book:
1. The interviewees, speaking anonymously, tell it like it is, in PC-free terms: the Boys Club... the Queen Bee syndrome...
2. It lists specific pipeline-priming actions that women and employers can take
3. The cartoons are excellent!
The book canvasses opinions from gatekeepers for board positions. One such group is the "Kings": highly influential males in the largest firms. Another group is headhunters. They deny looking only for Anglo-Saxon male candidates who have run large businesses. They point to the `third sector' boards (NFPs, charities etc) and to academia, both of which are hiring pools they consider.
Another valuable perspective comes from women in the "marzipan" layer - that's the one just below the board. They said the key factors hindering women's advancement were mostly cultural issues and women's own shortcomings - not flexibility and childcare.
One critical intervention is to change the culture. The authors provide a painful list of micro-inequities - the little unfair actions that, singly, are not worth making a fuss about, but that add up to an alienating environment for ambitious women. Simply being able to put a name to such discourtesies, however, helps everyone express and address them.
The book makes a great read both for more senior women who aspire to Board positions, and also to younger women, helping them confront "issues and barriers of which they as yet have no inkling." It was affirming to find a book full of the issues we talk and write about at Professionelle.co.nz.