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This book tells the stories of four powerful women who knew how to do make it to the top of an organization and stay there. They also knew how to exercise leadership well as a woman in a male environment. This book also explicitly identifies the key factors in these leaders’ career success, and it elucidates the competencies that enabled the women to exercise leadership effectively.
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Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, I.22 (Translation R. Crawley). Similarly Walsh, W. H. (1967). Philosophy of history. New York: Harper & Row, 196: Our ultimate purpose in engaging in historical enquiries might not be just to find out the truth about what things were like in former times, but on the basis of that to make some comparison with the present.
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Vanderbroeck, P. (2014). Introduction. In: Leadership Strategies for Women. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39623-6_1
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