12 Views from Women's Eyes: Managing the New Majority

by Laura Ricci, Laura L. Ricci, George J. Wilkerson

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965739902
• ISBN13: 9780965739900
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: R3
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Great balanced view of the strengths of both sexes

This book was an excellent, hands-on, interesting discussion of the strengths of both sexes and how to run a team or business to effectively use those strengths. Atop the utility of the book, it was also well written and entertaining.

Excellent workplace gender analysis.

Between budget development, employee evaluations, development of a state-wide virtual university, and getting 28 courses and faculty off the ground I have finally finished reading 12 Views from Women's Eyes: Managing the New Majority. My hat is off to the authors. As I read the text, I found myself wandering around work, dealing with people, and being able to clearly identify the behaviors and scenarios the authors presented. The authors' analysis of gender makes visible the cultural underpinning of relationships that develop in the workplace. This book helps reveal how the relationships we observe, lived out in the workplace daily, develop because of culturally sanctioned gender roles. The text had a significant effect on my day to day management and understanding people. I really appreciated the e-mail inserts imbedded in the text. These provided me with a deeper understanding of the material, as well as giving me insight I don't usually get in a text about the authors and how they struggle with making meaning. I love this "inside look" at the authors and the material. Also, I like the exercise breaks. They seemed to come just in the moment I needed to shift gears as the reader. On several pages I wrote in the margins "well-said and delicately put...good ideology for the development of a critical thinking and problem-solving team approach...this is all great...EXCELLENT!" The book obviously made a deep connection with me. I want to buy about 12 copies and send them anonomously to several folks who could benefit from reading this book!

Original,insightful look at gender & behavior in workplace

Ricci and Wilkerson have provided us the necessary first step in truly integrating "female" capability into the workplace. Their message rings all too true to a 25-year veteran of a "male" model corporation. This book will be a welcome assist to those well-intentioned managers who watched with bewilderment as droves of capable women left their organizations only to contribute huge successes to their competitors. The remaining problem is carrying the insightful message into those "male" model organizations with low awareness of the need to integrate the female perspective. But, then, I suppose those organizations are self-limiting. I predict that current shake-ups in the market place will prove the validity and necessity for integration of both gender-specific approaches to managing and performing productive work. BRAVO!!