Power Through Partnership How Women Lead Better Together

by Polk, Betsy; Chotas, Maggie Ellis

• ISBN13: 9781626561588
• ISBN10: 1626561583
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-11-03
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

WINNER OF THE 2015 SILVER MEDAL IPPY AWARD IN BUSINESS/CAREER/SALES

Betsy Polk and Maggie Chotas have learned something powerful: when women work together they discover a level of support, flexibility, confidence, accountability, and freedom to be themselves that they rarely find in other work relationships. Drawing on their own twelve-year partnership and from interviews with 125 women business partners, Polk and Chotas demolish the myths that keep women from collaborating and offer advice for handling a host of potential challenges. This groundbreaking book shows that when women team up—combining complementary skills, channeling their egos into the partnership, and encouraging each other—they can work as full equals to achieve something that’s exponentially greater than each woman alone.

Author Biography

Betsy Polk is a cofounder of the Mulberry Partners, a consulting firm that helps organizations, teams, and individuals develop strategies to strengthen collaboration, improve communication, resolve conflicts, and cultivate great ideas.
Maggie Ellis Chotas is a cofounder of the Mulberry Partners, a consulting firm that helps organizations, teams, and individuals develop strategies to strengthen collaboration, improve communication, resolve conflicts, and cultivate great ideas.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Introduction: Out From Under the Radar
Chapter 1: Why Partnership Works for Women
Chapter 2: What Does Being Women Have to Do with It?
Chapter 3: Debunking the Myths
Chapter 4: Searching for Partners
Chapter 5: Preparing for Risks
Chapter 6: Leveraging Conflict
Chapter 7: The Rubber Band Theory
Notes
Acknowledgments
Contributing Partners
About the Authors
About Mulberry Partners