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2010 Connect, Listen & Learn Series

September 14, 2010
Collaborative Competition: A Woman's Guide to Succeeding by Competing
by Kathryn C. Mayer

Collaborative Competition™ seems like an oxymoron but is actually a developed skill set that leverages women’s strengths as collaborators. Kathryn shares her stories and findings from 20 years as a leadership development executive as well as her extensive interviews with women leaders from highly competitive fields. Kathryn coaches you through exercises and examples, how and why to avoid falling into the trap of seeing competition as cutthroat and threatening, instead creating a new positive approach! While this book is targeted to women, it is also valuable for men as it explores skills that are critical to all successful professionals.

For more information about the book and buying options, please click here.

Collaborative Competition™ will accelerate career growth through:

· Cultivating the strategic mindset and a personalized, healthy approach to competition;

· Forming partnerships with pacers who provide feedback, challenges, advice, and support; and

· Managing challenging people and situations and turning stressful situations into competitive 
  advantages.

October 12, 2010
Best Friends at the Bar: What Women Need to Know about a Career in Law
by Susan Smith Blakely

Best Friends at the Bar addresses the realities of law firm practice, especially in large firms, and gives pre-law students, law students, and new attorneys a realistic view of the opportunities and hazards most often encountered by women lawyers. Drawing on her many years of practicing law and mentoring young lawyers and with the help of other women in all areas of the legal profession and her "best friends at the bar," Susan Smith Blakely strives to help young women entering the legal profession begin their careers with open eyes and a more level playing field than women lawyers of past generations.

This concise paperback, which is written in a direct, personal tone that instantly engages the reader:

· Explores the experiences of the author and more than 60 private and public sector attorneys,
  judges, law school career counselors, and law firm managing partners who forthrightly address a
  wide variety of issues;

· Candidly speaks to the issues women face in law firm practice and provides invaluable advice for
  planning enduring and satisfying careers in the law; and

· Critically addresses business, cultural, and personal conditions and offers strategies for dealing
  with them, including how to manage expectations in the context of actual job conditions and the
  dynamics of personal life.

Full of helpful advice from attorneys, judges, law school career counselors, and law firm managing partners with wide and varied experiences, this book will be an invaluable resource to any woman planning a career in the law.

November 9, 2010
Women on Top: The Woman’s Guide to Leadership and Power in Law Firms
by Ida Abbott

December 14, 2010
No Ceiling, No Walls: What Women Haven’t Been Told about Leadership from Career-Start to the Corporate Boardroom
by Susan Colantuono