Taking Charge - by Joan Steinau Lester (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This nuts and bolts guide shows how to achieve sucess on one's own terms and empower women in the workplace and the world. A motivational gift for young women just starting their careers, as well as for mature readers who want to re-enter the job market or change professions, Taking Charge shows how to grab hold of the equality, status, and esteem that has so often eluded women.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Offers proven, effective strategies for every woman, whether secretary or CEO. Provides encouragement and goal setting guidelines. Gives detailed suggestions for forming action support groups.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Taking Charge: Every Woman's Action Guide To Personal, Political & Professional Success</i> is a practical book for women of all ages that offers a ten-point plan for becoming more effective in their personal, professional, and political lives. Joan Lester is a long time advocate of women's rights and offers effective strategies for individuals as well as groups, and provides encouragement and guidelines for goal setting. Whether read cover to cover, used as a workbook, or perused for specific advice or inspiration, <i>Taking Charge</i> is a highly useful tool for women at all stages of self development. <i>Taking Charge</i> is essential reading and a very valuable addition to any women's studies reading list. --<i><b>Midwest Book Review</i></b>-- "Reviews"<br><br>How to empower women to take charge of their lives at home, in the workplace and the community is the theme of this clearly written self-help guide. Lester, executive director of Equity Institute, a non-profit think tank and leadership consulting organization, recommends a group approach, with the formation of small action teams, meeting regularly to provide a sympathetic circle of support. There are four major concepts, or highways, to be mastered on the road to success, according to Lester: getting centered, taking action, building alliances and creating a vision. Dividing each of these themes into mile markers, or chapters, Lester delivers her message of self-reliance with examples from her own and other women's lives and quotations from a veritable roll-call of feminist gurus, like Shakti Gawain to Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Each woman, we are told, has the option to sit in the driver's seat and moving ahead. At the end of every chapter there is a tool kit of exercises and suggestions for action team discussions. Lester's action team concept differs little from the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s, and her highway to success analogy is a tad overworked, but her book does manage to shine in its practical strategies for women to achieve recognition. --<i><b>Publisher's Weekly</b></i>, Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.-- "Reviews"<br>
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