How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back

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Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There was an international phenomenon, selling half a million copies in the US alone and being translated into 27 languages worldwide, thanks to its razor-sharp insights into how successful people can become even more successful. Now, in How Women Rise, Goldsmith teams up with women's leadership expert Sally Helgesen to hone in on the specific barriers facing women in business - and to reveal how the most high-powered women overcome them.

Matching the easy-to-follow structure of the original book, How Women Rise identifies the twelve habits that prevent women from achieving their potential in the still male-dominated world of business. From being reluctant to delegate and to claim achievements, to a fear of appearing self-promoting and expecting others to notice and reward hard work, Goldsmith and Helgesen show how these pressures operate at all levels, hampering even the most accomplished women's careers. And they uncover the handful of simple tricks that can help women surmount the obstacles and reach the top of their professions.

Packed with vivid, real-life examples and straightforward advice, How Women Rise will be a game-changer for any woman who wants to move to the next level of her career but isn't sure how to do so.Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There was an international phenomenon, selling half a million copies in the US alone and being translated into 27 languages worldwide, thanks to its razor-sharp insights into how successful people can become even more successful. Now, in How Women Rise, Goldsmith teams up with women's leadership expert Sally Helgesen to hone in on the specific barriers facing women in business - and to reveal how the most high-powered women overcome them.

Matching the easy-to-follow structure of the original book, How Women Rise identifies the twelve habits that prevent women from achieving their potential in the still male-dominated world of business. From being reluctant to delegate and to claim achievements, to a fear of appearing self-promoting and expecting others to notice and reward hard work, Goldsmith and Helgesen show how these pressures operate at all levels, hampering even the most accomplished women's careers. And they uncover the handful of simple tricks that can help women surmount the obstacles and reach the top of their professions.

Packed with vivid, real-life examples and straightforward advice, How Women Rise will be a game-changer for any woman who wants to move to the next level of her career but isn't sure how to do so.
Dr Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognised as the world's most influential leadership expert, renowned for his uncanny ability to help CEOs achieve lasting changes in behaviour. He has been named as one of the world's fifteen greatest business thinkers by The Times, described as one of America's 'Fifty Great Leaders' by Bloomberg Businessweek, and twice won 'World's Most Influential Leadership Thinker' at the Forbes Thinkers50 Awards. His 2008 book What Got You Here Won't Get You There was an international bestseller and remains the market-leading book on professional development.


Sally Helgesen is an internationally acclaimed speaker and consultant who specialises in helping women achieve their potential in the workplace. She has delivered leadership programmes to companies including Microsoft, IBM, the World Bank and Pfizer. A contributing editor to strategy business magazine, Helgesen is the author of six bestselling books including the classic bestseller The Female Advantage, as well as The Web of Inclusion, which was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the greatest leadership books of all time.