The Female Vision

FOREWORD

Marshall Goldsmith

“I decided it just wasn’t worth it.”

Too many gifted women have used this phrase to describe why they departed from major corporations and passed up seemingly spectacular career opportunities, leaving positions that may have seemed glamorous to the outside observer but that felt personally depleting to them. I hope the wisdom and insights the authors share in The Female Vision will change that situation by giving organizations a way to draw more fully on what women see.

The Female Vision draws on the latest research (comparing women’s and men’s perceptions) to illustrate why what women and men see can be so different. It presents myriad examples from today’s challenging workplace to illustrate why these differences ...