This Isn't Working How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success

by Dunbar, Meghan French

• ISBN13: 9781541704862
• ISBN10: 154170486X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781541704886
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-08-05
• Publisher: Basic Venture
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Summary

From leadership expert Meghan French Dunbar, “a timely and necessary book” (Deepa Purushothaman, author of The First, The Few, The Only) that shows business leaders and workers how to boost performance while improving workplaces for women, and, ultimately, everyone
 
Lean in. Rise and grind. Work smarter, not harder. Many books for women promise tips and tricks to achieve wealth and success in a business world made by men. But on the way to the top, most women leaders (and many men, too!) struggle with anxiety, stress, guilt, and burnout. Playing by the rules in a male-dominated game isn’t working—for anyone.  

This Isn’t Working inspires women to reexamine how we do business and shows there are much healthier, more fulfilling ways to succeed in the business world that don’t require sacrificing ourselves. In this book, Meghan French Dunbar shares the insights, frameworks, and practical advice she has learned from over a decade of work with impactful women business leaders, from start-up founders to multinational CEOs. She argues that it’s time to move beyond business cultures marked by competition and aggression and instead embrace healthier leadership and workplace practices, which are proven to yield better results.  

This Isn’t Working provides readers with an empathetic and honest business playbook for improving individual and business performance so that everyone can thrive. 

 

Author Biography

Meghan French Dunbar is an entrepreneur, business journalist, speaker, thought leader, and women’s leadership expert whose work focuses on making business better for all. She has founded numerous ventures, including Conscious Company magazine, the World-Changing Women’s Summit, the Conscious Company Leaders Forum, Womn Led, and Stakeholder Business. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband Scott and two children.