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Sally Helgesen

Disciplines:
leadership
management/organizational behavior
women in business
management/management writing

Summary

American leadership author and consultant whose The Female Advantage and How Women Rise have been influential in the discourse on women's leadership styles and career development.

Core Contribution

Identified and documented distinctively female leadership patterns — web-like organizational thinking vs. hierarchical — and provided the first systematic account of the habits that hold women back in careers from a practitioner perspective.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Female Advantage

The Web of Inclusion

Thriving in 24/7

How Women Rise

Historical Influences

Peter Drucker Tom Peters

Intellectual Lineage

Management Literature Women in Leadership DiscourseOrganizational Theory

Contemporaries & Peers

Sheryl Sandberg Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Minds Influenced

Women's leadership discourseOrganizational design thinking

Intellectual Posterity

The Female Advantage How Women Rise Web of inclusion

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