Power Through Partnership: How Women Lead Better Together [Paperback]

WINNER OF THE 2015 SILVER MEDAL IPPY AWARD IN BUSINESS/CAREER/SALES

Betsy Polk and Maggie Chotas have learned something powerful: when women work together they discover a level of support, flexibility, confidence, accountability, and freedom to be themselves that they rarely find in other work relationships. Drawing on their own twelve-year partnership and from interviews with 125 women business partners, Polk and Chotas demolish the myths that keep women from collaborating and offer advice for handling a host of potential challenges. This groundbreaking book shows that when women team up—combining complementary skills, channeling their egos into the partnership, and encouraging each other—they can work as full equals to achieve something that’s exponentially greater than each woman alone.Foreword by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Introduction: Out From Under the Radar
Chapter 1: Why Partnership Works for Women
Chapter 2: What Does Being Women Have to Do with It?
Chapter 3: Debunking the Myths
Chapter 4: Searching for Partners
Chapter 5: Preparing for Risks
Chapter 6: Leveraging Conflict
Chapter 7: The Rubber Band Theory
Notes
Acknowledgments
Contributing Partners
About the Authors
About Mulberry Partners“Having been a part of a founding trio of women for nearly a decade now, I am often amazed when people express surprise that such a partnership exists—and has thrived for so many years. I’m gratified to see Betsy Polk and Maggie Ellis Chotas focus specifically on partnerships between women and explore their unique attributes and strengths. Shining a light on successful partnerships can only encourage more of such partnerships!”
—Elisa Camahort Page, cofounder and COO, BlogHer, Inc.

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