Break Your Own Rules

How women can make it to the top by dismissing conventional wisdom and adopting the new rules of leadership The latest research confirms that women hold just 11% of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations today?which shockingly hasn?t changed in over 30 years. The bottom line, however, is that business is simply better with more women in it. Thankfully there?s now a real solution to this age-old problem: Break Your Own Rules distills the six faulty assumptions (or ?rules?) most women follow that get in the way of their path to leadership and power ? then delivers the correlating new rules that promise to clear that path. For example, the old rule of ?Focus on Others? must be replaced by ?Take Center Stage,? ?Hard Work Will Get You There? must yield to ?Be Politically Savvy.? ?Play It Safe? must give way to ?Play to Win.? ?Ask Permission? must be replaced by ?Proceed Until Apprehended.? And ?Be Modest? must be superseded by ?Project Personal