18View from the Trenches: Lessons for Women as Leaders and Negotiators

As more executive women chip through the glass ceiling, they earn experience and have stories to tell that offer lessons to future generations of executive women. Their value as mentors to younger aspiring executives, both male and female, is impossible to calculate. And alongside them, in the corridors and adjacent offices, are men who make choices either to help or to hinder their progress.

This chapter contains interviews with two women who made it to the upper echelons of corporate America in part by deploying superior negotiating skills, along with many other attributes that made them successful. We discuss the challenges they faced on their journey toward the C-suite, ...

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