These achievements, as with all successes in life, extract a price. Women must learn power behaviors to keep the price affordable. Moreover, women need to ensure that their new successes do not cause overload, impeding their ongoing growth. Many books give women tips on how to survive in the male world of business, but business is no longer validly a male world. Women trailblazers of the next decade will thoughtfully utilize positive power, which in turn will increase their effectiveness in life and foster adequate self-care.
Women are, today, forty-six percent of the workforce and an integral part of the business world.
Other books have focused on male behaviors in power acquisition and use. In contrast, this book focuses on female behaviors from an updated view of women s power position in business and society. Women will be urged to use feminine wisdom to positively affect their lives, businesses, and society. Feminine wisdom recognizes power as a necessary tool for effective living, and not solely for use by the masculine gender. Power needs to stand as an independent, less emotionally laden word, describing effective political and social behaviors in the career and home worlds.