Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking That Block Women's Paths to Power

Group Level: Women Supporting Other Women

“There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't help other women.”

—Madeleine Albright

We are passionate believers in the idea that women must help other women succeed. In our interview with Gail Evans, former CNN executive and author of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, she put it this way: “We need to push each other up. The guys push each other up all the time. And if they don't succeed, they just slap each other on the back and say It was a good try; we'll go for it next time. We have to do the same—we must surround ourselves with supportive women who will give us a boost.”

There is a common belief that women would rather tear each other down than build each other up. But is it true that we're ...