The Naked Truth: A Working Woman’s Manifesto about Business and What Really Matters was published in 2004, just as issues surrounding women at work started to return to the fore.
The book looked at the classic barriers to women’s advancement and collected experiences and advice from successful business women who had overcome them.
In particular, the book examined women’s attitudes to power and how they define and use power differently from men.
The book argued that men see power as expressed through personal or organizational dominance, while women see power as derived from orchestration.
Men express ambition as getting to the top, while women see ambition as the ability to live and work freely.
The book concludes by arguing that what women bring to the workplace is distinctive and highly suited to the non-linear complexities of modern business.
The Naked Truth: A Working Woman’s Manifesto about Business and What Really Matters was published in 2004, just as issues surrounding women at work started to return to the fore. The book looked at the classic barriers to women’s advancement and collected experiences and advice from successful business women who had overcome them. In particular, the book examined women’s attitudes to power and how they define and use power differently from men. The book argued that men see power as expressed through personal or organizational dominance, while women see power as derived from orchestration. Men express ambition as getting to the top, while women see ambition as the ability to live and work freely. The book concludes by arguing that what women bring to the workplace is distinctive and highly suited to the non-linear complexities of modern business.
Margaret Heffernan