Scrappy Women in Business
Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law
By: Kimberly Wiefling
Published: July 21, 2010
Format: Paperback, 210 pages
ISBN-10: 1600051855
ISBN-13: 978-1600051852
Publisher: Happy About
"Life is messy, and careers are no exception", writes global leadership and business management consultant, and founder and President of Wiefling Consulting, LLC., Kimberly Wiefling, in her irreverent and straight talking book Scrappy Women in Business: Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law. The author shares the stories of a dozen successful women, as well as her own personal insights, into the diverse paths to success in careers and business.
Kimberly Wiefling takes a refreshing approach to success for women. She goes against much of the conventional wisdom of how to achieve success, and offers the stories of successful women who achieved their goals and found their dreams in very different ways. Putting her own experience and long list of accomplishments to work, Kimberly Wiefling offers some important insights into the traits shared by the high achieving women whose stories appear in the book. The author points to some misconceptions about successful people, and how appearances can be very deceiving. Indeed, the author points to something she calls Impostor Syndrome that afflicts many women. They are certain that they are somehow frauds, and on the brink of discovery as such, at any moment. With this insight in hand, Kimberly Wiefling demonstrates how this phenomenon is not something to fear, but to ignore for the fraud that it is in reality.
Kimberly Wiefling (photo left) recognizes that many obstacles appear in the road to success for many women. She describes how she faced those challenges herself. Along with her personal story, and those of the women who offer their stories in the book, the author shares how women as a group have still not reached their fullest potential. Kimberly Wiefling expresses her disappointment at how women have not traveled as far along the journey to success as she had forecast. Thanks to the stories presented by the women in book, the author is certain that women will soon take full control of their own destinies. Through a combination of willpower, perseverance, and scrappiness, these women met and overcame all of the roadblocks in their way. For the author, these accounts are indicative of the power and potential of women in their careers and businesses.
For me, the power of the book is how Kimberly Wiefling provides both a theoretical background to her concepts of success along with some practical steps for women to achieve their goals. The book contains some valuable and useful exercises and checklists for women to assess their own goals and pathways to success. The addition of the personal stories of the scrappy women, forms the core of the book, and powerful examples of the book's principles in action. The understanding on the part of the author that there is no one road to success in careers or business provides a critical insight into achievement for women. The author points to the concerns among with being unmasked as a fraud, and demonstrates how to use this idea to assist in the road to accomplishments. With the book peppered liberally with scrappy tips for women, there is important advice and inspiration all through the book.
I highly recommend the delightful and motivational book Scrappy Women in Business: Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law edited by Kimberly Wiefling, to any women seeking confirmation of their personal power and abilities. The stories presented in the book are affirming and inspirational in their diversity and shared traits. Scrappiness and perseverance worked for these women, and they will work for other women as well.
Read the empowering and energizing book Scrappy Women in Business: Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law edited by Kimberly Wiefling, and put the qualities of being a scrappy women to work for you. Your success in business or your career will surpass even your wildest dreams and expectations.
