Leading with care: how women around the world are inspiring businesses, empowering communities, and creating opportunity

Leading with Care offers a look at leadership from an angle that most women have never considered. Standard leadership books present ideas from Fortune execs or MBA professors. But none has ever shown us how to borrow and implement ideas from those generally believed to be under-privileged. Traditional thinking says, If I make $500K a year, what can I learn from a woman who makes $500? What can a McMansion Dweller learn from a woman living in a hut? Through the power of personal stories, Leading with Care tells us exactly what we have to learn. In this ground-breaking business book, management expert Mary Cantando examines the stories of five women in the developing world who, with help from the non-profit organization CARE, have capitalized on personal and professional opportunities, contributed to their communities, influenced their physical environment, and overcome discrimination on the road to establishing self-sufficiency and building strong lives and strong businesses. But the book goes evenfurther. It includes interviews with top executives at major American companies who have had the privilege of working with these inspiring women in the developing world. It then goes on to explain the lessons that the top executives have learned from their less fortunate counterparts, and describes how readerscan apply those lessons in their own companies, whether theyre C-level executives at major multi-national corporations or run part-time businesses out of their garage. Corporate executives featured include Donna Orender, President WNBA, Vicki Gordon, Senior VP, Corporate Affairs, Intercontinental Hotels Group,Tae Yoo, Senior VP, Corporate Affairs, Cisco Systems, Melanie Healey, Global President Feminine Care, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, Proctor s mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. CARE promotes innovative solutions and facilitates lasting change by: Strengthening capacity for self help; Providing economic opportunity; Delivering relief in emergencies; Influencing policy decisions at all levels; Addressing discrimination in all its forms

• ISBN: 978-0-470-49963-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés