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Also by Margaret Heffernan:

How She Does It, January 2007
Hardcover

HOW SHE DOES IT
By: Margaret Heffernan

How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules of Business Success

Viking
January 2007
On Sale: January 18, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0670038237
EAN: 9780670038237
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

The numbers are staggering. Between 1997 and 2004, privately held, women-owned businesses grew at three times the rate of all American privately held firms; women’s companies are creating jobs at twice the rate of all firms; women’s companies are growing profits faster than all firms. Five-time CEO and contributor to Real Business and Fast Company Margaret Heffernan asks, Why are these women so successful?

In How She Does It, Heffernan finds a striking congruence between the things that women excel at and the demands of the new economy. After interviewing hundreds of women running businesses of all sizes and in all markets, she discovers a few attributes that hold true across the board. Women have a tremendous need to achieve. Women don’t feel they have a safety net or can turn back. They are smart about markets and timing. They practice diversity. They place values at the heart of their business and take culture very seriously. And women work from a different concept of power than men. The result is a unique style of leadership that challenges conventional wisdom: Soft skills are getting hard results. This is an inspiring workplace manifesto that reveals a new standard of excellence, a new way for any company to get from good to great that is fast becoming the new norm.

Media Buzz

Marketplace - PRI - February 6, 2007