The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
Now in Currency paperback -- Sally Helgesen's  classic study of  female leaders and how their  strategies represent a highly successful  revision of male  leadership styles. Sixty thousand copies in print!   In her bestselling 1990 book, Sally Helgesen  discovered that men and  women approach work in  fundamentally different ways. Many of these  differences  hold distinct advantages for women, who excel at  running  organizations that foster creativity,  cooperation, and intuitive  decision-making power,  necessities for companies of the twenty-first  century.  Helgesen's findings reveal that organizations run by  women  do not take the form of the traditional  hierarchical pyranaid, but  more closely resemble a  web, where leaders reach out, not down, to  form an  interrelating matrix built around a central purpose.  The  strategy of the web concentrates power at the  center by drawing others  closer and by creating  communities where information sharing is  essential.  She presents her findings through unique, closely  detailed  accounts of four successful women  business leaders -- Frances  Hesselbein of Girl Scouts  USA, Barbara Grogan of Western Industrial   Contractors, Nancy Badore of Ford Motor Company's Executive   Development Center, and Dorothy Brunson of Brunson  Communications.  Helgesen observes their meetings,  listens to their phone calls and  conferences, and  reads their correspondence. Her "diary  studies"  document how women leaders make decisions,  schedule their days, gather  and disperse  information, motivate others, delegate tasks, structure   their companies, hire, and fire. She chronicles how  their experiences  as women -- wives, mothers,  friends, sisters, daughters -- contribute  to their  leadership style.