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In the early 1970s the American author of this book gave away a much-loved sweater to charity. Eleven years later, she sees the sweater – with her name tag still in it – being worn by a child on the streets of Kigali, Rwanda. So begins this fascinating book that is part auto-biography, part business text, part philosophical comment and part history lesson.

Schooled by tradition to take care of the world, women can find it hard to claim the power to lead their teams or shape their organisations. Parr Lamond & Associates’ The Power2Lead^© workshop flips this tradition on its head. Women discover their innate competence and build their confidence in a feminine approach. They develop the inner authority needed to command respect in a business world that has been shaped, over centuries, by men.

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The more women on a company's senior management team, the less its share price fell in 2008, according to an analysis of companies from the French CAC 40 stock exchange index.

Just what does it take to be a woman in leadership these days? As Women’s Day on 9 August gallops towards us we ask five women leaders – in four very different organisations – to share their experience of leading with integrity.

The world of work has changed fundamentally. And as we stare down the barrel of a full-blown global recession, it is critical that we take stock of the social, economic and environmental assumptions that have brought us to this point. As Einstein once reflected, in order to create a different future we have to bring new ways of thinking to bear on our problems.