Obstacles
Leadership and Credibility
Management and Policy
2: Preparation
Assess Your Resources
Plan Efficiently
Build on Strength
Provide Value
Exercise Control
3: Strategizing
Recognize Your Assets
Overcome Your Limitations
Analyze the Competition
Set the Odds in Your Favor
Get Ready to Win
4: Allocating Resources
Believe in Yourself
Visualize Success
Reduce Mistakes
Act from Strength
Conserve Your Energy
5: Performing
Employ Universal Timing
Time Your Moves
Introduce the Unexpected
Build Momentum
Create Your Own Reality
6: Exploiting Weakness
Carve Your Path
Define Your Style
Take Initiatives
Leverage Strengths
Minimize Your Lesser Strengths
Unite
Protect Your Image
Guard Your Vulnerabilities
Undermine the Competition
Protect Your Health
Maneuver to Advantage
8: Navigating
Develop Credibility
Weigh Circumstances
Be Flexible
Exploit Advantages
Do the Right Thing
9: Managing and Leading
Manage Things, Lead People
Lead People
Resolve Problems
Establish Priorities
Meet Needs
10: Moving Forward
Evaluate Conditions
Create Favorable Circumstances
Take the Right Path
Avoid the Wrong Move
Be Disciplined and Patient
11: Deployment
Pick Your Turf
Confuse Opponents
Energize
Use Common Sense
12: Coping
The Nature of Attack
Negating an Attack
Attacking When Advantageous
Defend When Attacked
Survive and Thrive
13: Networking
Understand the Process
Create Alliances
Build Your Network
Share and Beware
Read the Handwriting on the Wall
INTRODUCTION
Win-Win: The War Unfought
The gender gap is shrinking around the globe, yet the breach remains wide enough to frustrate and stifle far too many women seeking an equal opportunity to improve their lives and realize their ambitions.
Countless empowerment groups offer women opportunities to share their experiences with others who offer support and guidance. Lisa Borders (past president of the Women’s National Basketball Association) became the first president and CEO of Time’s Up, a group founded to fight workplace sexual harassment, assault and abuse. And who hasn’t heard of the international movement spawned by #MeToo, the formidable and growing anti-sexual-assault and women’s empowerment movement? No longer do women need to fight back alone.
What do women want? Many seek an even playing field in and outside the workplace. Many men may share this imperative, but reality suggests that a majority do not. The reason, we believe, is that men and women view themselves, their environments and the world differently.
It is no secret that male dominance has been the norm since times long past, though history is a crippled justification for clinging to inequities rooted in caveman images and mean-minded discrimination. Change is slow. Sure, women occupy the higher
