Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life
Nancy O’Reilly
Adams Media

Now is the time. Stop waiting around for the career (and life) that you deserve and start taking the reins! Leading Women shows you how to claim power and respect, conquer your internal barriers, and change the world by helping other women do the same. Featuring stories from twenty nationally acclaimed female leaders, this empowering guide offers real-life advice for breaking free of predetermined roles in the business world and life.

Real Women, Real Leaders: Surviving and Succeeding in the Business World
Kathleen Hurley and Priscilla Shumway (editors)
Wiley

Plan your path to leadership with insight from real women at the top. In Real Women, Real Leadership, 24 women leaders describe their personal journeys to the top, providing deep insight and a fascinating perspective on “making it” as a woman in a male- dominated business environment. They discuss their experiences and offer guidance on topics such as balancing family and career, building alliances, mentoring and being mentored, and overcoming obstacles in the business world that is still dominated by men in the senior levels of management.

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
Bonnie Marcus
Wiley

Break into the power circle and build relationships that advance careers. The Politics of Promotion offers women the tools and guidance they need to successfully navigate the realities of their organization, emphasizing the need to understand office politics to get the promotions and recognition they deserve. Written by Bonnie Marcus, a professional coach who focuses on helping women advance their careers, this book demonstrates the impact of relationships and sponsorship on career trajectory.

No One Understands You and What to Do About It
Heidi Grant Halvorson
Harvard Business Review Press

Heidi Grant Halvorson, bestselling author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently and Focus, shows you how to communicate effectively—despite unintentional (yet widespread) distortions of perception.

By better understanding how communication and perception really work, you’ll learn to send the right signals at the right time, no matter who you’re communicating with.

Spiraling Upward: The 5 Co-Creative Powers for Women on the Rise
Wendy Wallbridge
Bibliomotion

Why are women withdrawing from leadership positions in unprecedented numbers? Why has the tally of women in middle management reached a plateau? Men forged the traditional path to leadership in Western culture. This linear, head-down, forward-at-all- costs method doesn’t work for women, who define success in more holistic terms, seeking both personal and professional fulfillment.

Wendy Wallbridge recognizes this unmet need of professional women for an alternative path to success, and her new book, Spiraling Upward: 5 Co-Creative Powers for Women on the Rise, offers the solution.

Women of the Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (and How You Can Too)
Meredith A. Jones
Palgrave Macmillan

Why would an investor care whether you wear Louboutins or loafers when managing their money? It has been proven that women invest differently than men. Collectively, their approach has proven profitable and reliable, and it outperforms the industry at large. Deploying and more widely disseminating some of the techniques that women instinctively use can be beneficial to investors, male and female. This book celebrates the steady and consistent execution of an investment strategy that results in long-term outperformance.

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Arianna Huffington
Harmony

In Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today’s world. As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success, money and power, has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress- related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected to the world 24/7, we’re losing our connection to what truly matters. Our current definition of success is, as Thrive shows, literally killing us. We need a new way forward.