This Isn't Working
How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From leadership expert Meghan French Dunbar, “a timely and necessary book” (Deepa Purushothaman, author of The First, The Few, The Only) that shows business leaders and workers how to boost performance while improving workplaces for women, and, ultimately, everyone
Lean in. Rise and grind. Work smarter, not harder. Many books for women promise tips and tricks to achieve wealth and success in a business world made by men. But on the way to the top, most women leaders (and many men, too!) struggle with anxiety, stress, guilt, and burnout. Playing by the rules in a male-dominated game isn’t working—for anyone.
This Isn’t Working inspires women to reexamine how we do business and shows there are much healthier, more fulfilling ways to succeed in the business world that don’t require sacrificing ourselves. In this book, Meghan French Dunbar shares the insights, frameworks, and practical advice she has learned from over a decade of work with impactful women business leaders, from start-up founders to multinational CEOs. She argues that it’s time to move beyond business cultures marked by competition and aggression and instead embrace healthier leadership and workplace practices, which are proven to yield better results.
This Isn’t Working provides readers with an empathetic and honest business playbook for improving individual and business performance so that everyone can thrive.
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"Working women's well-being is declining faster than men's, regardless of whether they have children," asserts Dunbar, founder of Conscious Company magazine, in her solid debut manual. Leaning on her own career experience, in which she felt like she was "doing everything right" but still wasn't happy, as well as lessons she's learned from other business leaders, Dunbar identifies how the current business advice for women leads to increased stress and burnout without offering a path to success. Her assessment of why this is touches on how working parents are often excluded from leadership roles, objectification and sexual harassment in the workplace, and the idea of shareholder supremacy, which inherently puts compassion and empathy as leadership traits on the back burner. Dunbar recommends that businesses pivot to a more holistic approach to leadership, in which teams make decisions together, and ultimately she calls for an end to workplace norms that aren't working for everyone. Readers will be encouraged by her compassionate tone: "Your value is not contingent on how much you do. You're inherently worthy as you are. Full stop." The result is a persuasive call for reform.