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Women Leading

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This is a great book for any woman need a little bit of inspiration from other powerful women. In these examples, we can learn to access our ow leadership skills and better our lives

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This is an interesting book on leadership from a woman's point of view.
The authors are an academic and a Chief Commissioner of police, they have clearly been thinking and teaching about leadership together for many years. The book is based on experience and research, it is written clearly with a good use of narrative and sense of humour. There was nothing radically new, or that challenged how I lead as a doctor and as a priest. The authors emphasised the need for collaboration, the need to support each other and particularly the importance of being willing to step forward and assume a leadership role. In my experience teaching healthcare staff women still often defer to men, generally inappropriately.
The story that will stick with me highlights that we shouldn't assume we know what others want. In the aftermath of a natural disaster Christine met a very distressed lady wandering barefoot. She reassured her that they would soon find her some shoes, but the lady didn't want shoes, hadn't worn shoes in twenty years...Ask what is needed don't assume.

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Good book along the lines of Lean in. I like how it doesn't tell you to be someone you're not.

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