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A new kind of manifesto for the working woman, with practical
guidance on building wealth as well as inspiration for harnessing
the freedom and power that comes from a breadwinning mindset. Women
are now the main breadwinner in one-in-four households in the UK.
Yet the majority of women still aren't being brought up to think
like breadwinners. In fact, they're actively discouraged - by
institutional bias and subconscious beliefs - from building their
own wealth, pursuing their full earning potential, and providing
for themselves and others financially. The result is that women
earn less, owe more, and have significantly less money saved and
invested for the future than men do. And if women do end up as the
main breadwinner, they've been conditioned to feel reluctant and
unprepared to manage the role. In Think Like a Breadwinner,
financial expert Jennifer Barrett reframes what it really means to
be a breadwinner by dismantling the narrative that women don't -
and shouldn't - take full financial responsibility to create the
lives they want. Featuring a wide variety of case studies from
women at all stages of their careers and financial lives, Barrett
shares the secrets of women who already think like breadwinners.
Barrett reveals not only the importance of women building their own
wealth, but also the freedom and power that comes with it.
'Barrett's manifesto is a must read for any woman at any stage of
her career.' - Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play
The Insightful Leader is the secret formula for claiming your best
leadership and using it to achieve unlimited success. Traditional
leadership coaching asks leaders to substitute ineffective
behaviors with alternatives, without addressing the underlying
internal beliefs that reinforce the old behaviors. After months of
successfully trying to change, a leader may suddenly face stressors
at work—a looming deadline or a difficult negotiation—that
trigger counterproductive behavior, resulting in guilt, shame, and
frustration. The Insightful Leader first helps readers to recognize
ineffective behaviors that may be connected to one or more of ten
"superpowers," or overused strengths. Readers embark on a
step-by-step process, identifying their superpowers and
understanding the strengths of these superpowers as well as when
their overuse may cause them to be perceived as egotistical or
manipulative. Having deepened their understanding of their
superpowers, leaders then use them as a catalyst to discover
adversity they may have faced in their past. The book guides them
to uncover survival beliefs held over from these experiences and to
reprogram them such that they no longer trigger self-destructive
habits but instead focus on recent successes. Finally, tips are
provided to help leaders to successfully sustain this
transformation.
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