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HONORABLE MENTION, 2014 San Francisco Book Festival
“The MBA Slingshot challenges women to plan their attack on business school and squeeze every ounce of career potential out of the experience. We’re sure to see more women at the top as a result.”
~ Elissa Ellis Sangster, Executive Director, Forté Foundation
“Nicole M. Lindsay offers great insights for women pursuing an MBA. This book is an absolute must-read for women who want to get the most out of their business school experience and develop the network needed to achieve professional success.”
~ Sylvia Ann Hewlett, President of Center for Talent Innovation and Author of Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor
An MBA furnishes more than knowledge … it provides access to opportunity.
The MBA Slingshot for Women: Using Business School to Catapult Your Career illustrates how women can use the graduate school experience to catapult their professional careers. Despite the fact that women have been in the workforce for decades and in top graduate schools for years, they represent only 15 percent of corporate boards and a paltry 3 percent of CEO positions. Is it that female executives run into professional roadblocks, or do they underestimate their own abilities to succeed in a business leadership environment?
Accomplished author and speaker Nicole Lindsay provides a gender-based roadmap for developing the knowledge, skills, and relationships to succeed in business school and beyond. Organized into four main themes, this powerful handbook provides a systematic approach, or “slingshot,” for harnessing the business school experience to accelerate professional success.
Topics covered in the The MBA Slingshot for Women include utilizing the social networking aspects of graduate school to pave the way for successful careers; preparing for the issues facing female students as they advance in their careers; developing a new approach to relationship management by leveraging personal connections to get ahead; and creating a consistent, powerful, personal brand.
Features
- Outlines the four channels that women can use to maximize their business school experience
- Reveals the four styles of communication for success in class
- Provides practical strategies and tactics for effective relationship and contact management
- Offers tools and insights for gaining greater self-awareness and creating a personal brand
- Reveals the importance of leveraging the 4C’s—classroom, community, career, and clubs
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