Helgesen argued that women often used leadership strategies that were particularly effective including skill in building relationships and nurturing them over the long haul, strong communication skills, and a preference for leading from the center rather than taking a top-down approach. That book, The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leading by Sally Helgesen, generated lots of excellent discussion among the students. I decided to pair biographies and autobiographies of important women leaders with a book that examined the leadership strategies and skills of contemporary women leaders. During my first year teaching, I was asked to develop a course called “Women Leaders in American History” for Converse College’s leadership program.
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