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

Concluding Words on Change

At its heart, this is a book about driving change: making individual, group, and systemic progress. On a personal level, resisting change is a common defense mechanism that can hold each of us back—from new experiences, from breakthrough insights, and from career success. On a group level, women not supporting other women will hold back progress for all of us. On an organizational level, resisting change can be lethal. Perhaps that's why change management has become an entire cottage industry in business consulting. But even if you know you need to evolve and change and have a legion of experts guiding you through, the prospect of actually changing can still be intimidating.

There is a mountain of research that explains ...