Her Place at the Table--A Woman s Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success


Deborah M. Kolb, Ph.D.
Judith Williams, Ph.D.
Carol Frohlinger, J.D.

Copyright 2004 by Deborah M. Kolb, Judith Williams, and Carol Frohlinger.

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 Kolb, Deborah M.  Her place at the table: a woman's guide to negotiating five key challenges to lead- ership success / by Deborah M. Kolb, Judith Williams, Carol Frohlinger.1st ed.     p. cm.  Includes bibliographical references and index. 
ISBN 0-7879-7214-2 (alk. paper)

1. Women executives. 2. Leadership. 3. Leadership in women. 4. Management. I. Williams, Judith, 1942- II. Frohlinger, Carol, 1953- III. Title.

HD6054.3.K65 2004

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Printed in the United States of America

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About the Authors

Deborah Kolb and Judith Williams first collaborated on "Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going: A Conversation with Professional Women," in which executive women in Boston explored the effects (and noneffects) of the women's movement on corporate life. Subsequent collaboration produced The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success (Simon & Schuster, 2000), which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the year by Harvard Business Review and won the Best Book Award from the International Association of Conflict Management. In 2003 Jossey-Bass published a revised and expanded paperback edition of The Shadow Negotiation titled Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas in Bargaining .

Two years ago, the authors created The Shadow Negotiation LLC. This company offers corporate training and seminars on negotiation and leadership specifically designed for women. Its Web site ”http://theshadownegotiation.com ”is the first of its kind to make negotiation courses for women available online.

Deborah M. Kolb is professor of management at Simmons School of Management and at the Center for Gender in Organizations there. From 1991 through 1994, she was executive director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is currently a senior fellow at the program, where she codirects the Negotiations in the Workplace Project.

Kolb is author of The Mediators (MIT Press, 1983), an in-depth study of labor mediation, and coeditor of Hidden Conflict in Organizations: Uncovering Behind-the-Scenes Disputes (Sage, 1992), a collection of field studies about how conflicts are handled in a variety of business and nonprofit organizations. She has published a study of the practice of successful mediators, Making Talk Work: Profiles of Mediators (Jossey-Bass, 1994). She is also editor of Negotiation Eclectics: Essays in Memory of Jeffrey Z. Rubin (Program on Negotiation, 1999). She has authored more than seventy-five articles on the subjects of negotiation, conflict in organizations, and mediation, and is on the editorial boards of the Negotiation Journal and the Journal of Conflict Resolution .

Kolb received her Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management, where her dissertation won the Zannetos Prize for outstanding doctoral scholarship. She has a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado.

Judith Williams spent her early career in publishing and investment banking, serving as manuscripts editor for Daedalus , the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and then as head of acquisitions for a private Boston investment firm.

In 1992 Williams secured seed money funding from a private foundation to establish a nonprofit corporation to develop documentaries and other media content on issues of specific concern to women.

Williams earned a B.A. at Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, as well as an M.B.A. from the Simmons Graduate School of Management with highest honors. She has taught at both Boston College and Harvard.

Carol Frohlinger is a consultant who works with major companies to translate business strategy into behaviors people use in the workplace. She consults on management practices, coaches leaders at all levels, and designs training interventions on topics including negotiation, leadership, team building, sales, and sales management. Frohlinger is also the founder of a consultancy focused on advancing women in business.

A nationally recognized speaker and meeting facilitator, Frohlinger is a former sales executive, banker, and practicing attorney. She holds a B.A. from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Acknowledgments

To the many women leaders who shared their stories, thanks are inadequate. Not only are we deeply grateful for their willingness to participate in our study; we want to acknowledge the extraordinary candor they brought to the project. They did not whitewash the challenges they faced. One woman even let us dog her footsteps through the first six months of a difficult turnaround . Nor did they minimize the opportunities they saw to make a difference. Our hats are off to them and our thanks go out to them.

Former students in the MBA and Executive programs at the Simmons School of Management took up our requests for leadership stories with alacrity. Many of these women belong to the cohort that has witnessed the increased presence of women among the leadership ranks of today's corporations and organizations. Their experiences offered a special perspective on the extent to which issues of gender have mutated into an array of second-generation effects. Members of The Boston Club, an organization of women leaders in Boston, were unfailingly helpful and willing to give up precious hours to be interviewed. Andrea Eisenberg of Right Associates brought together a dynamic focus group in New York. Sara Horowitz enriched our understanding with stories of Argentinean women leaders. And our clients afforded us the opportunity to witness leaders making a difference firsthand.

Our ideas on gender and leadership have been influenced immeasurably by the work on second-generation gender issues of our colleagues at the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons School of Management ”Stacy Blake Beard, Robin Ely, Joyce Fletcher, Evangelina Holvino, Deborah Merrill-Sands, Debra Meyerson, and Susan Sturm. Others of our colleagues ”Deborah Ancona, Lotte Bailyn, Jean Bartunek, Kathy Kram, Kathleen McGinn, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, and Linda Putnam ”have been intellectual and caring supporters in this work. A special dedication goes to the late Susan K. Eaton, a treasured colleague and leader who truly made a difference.

We are grateful to the Swahnberg-Novotny Fund at the Simmons School of Management for its support of this research.

In a twist of good fortune , we were able to work with our old team at Jossey-Bass. Kathe Sweeney, Mary Garrett, Tamara Keller, Nancy Flynn, Akemi Yamaguchi, and Hilary Powers all contributed to a seamless process. We also want to thank Jossey-Bass for making available a research grant that made this project possible.

The unsung heroes and heroines of an enterprise like this are our families who helped us in countless ways. Our children ”Samuel, Elizabeth, Megan, Tamsen, Kate, and Jack ” inspire us every day to try to make a difference and are ever ready to test the resonance of ideas. We appreciate the enthusiasm with which Karin, Greg, Bryan, and Augie have entered the fray. Love and thanks go to Jonathan Kolb and Stuart Frohlinger for always being there.

Deborah M. Kolb

Judith Williams

Carol Frohlinger




Her Place at the Table. A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
Her Place at the Table: A Womans Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
ISBN: 0470633751
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 64

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