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I really enjoyed Douglas Board’s interview with Bob Garlick on the recent Business Book Talk. It’s extraordinarily demoralising, when we are all struggling to create a new future in an uncertain business world, to see those selected and paid to lead us so often seem to have feet of clay. Douglas’ insights into executive selection offer some pragmatic ways of changing by understanding and embracing the uncertainty and complexity it involves. If we adopt the kind of approaches he is advocating in the place of the old, self-perpetuating ones, I wonder to what extent this would change both the quality of our leaders and the culture of leadership which they enable? Douglas Board is author of Choosing Leaders and Choosing to Lead: Science, Politics and Intuition in Executive Selection.
In December 2012 Dr Daphne Halkias was appointed to take charge of the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies.
Daphne is the author or co-author of several Gower books Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs, (recently included in Evan Carmichael’s Top 40 books for women entrepreneurs), Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, e-Negotiations plus another due at the very end of 2013: Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses
We were very pleased to see four Gower and one Ashgate book in Evan Carmichael’s Top 40 books for women entrepreneurs. Carmichael runs EvanCarmichael.com, one of the world’s most popular websites for entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22 he was a venture capitalist helping raise between $500,000 and $15 million. His goal is to help 1 billion entrepreneurs. He is regularly interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters etc. He included the following Gower books on his recommended list: Women in Management Worldwide: Progress and Prospects (Davidson/Burke), Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business (Halkias et al) and Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Halkias et al) and Diversity Quotas, Diverse Perspectives (Groschl/Takagi) as well as Ashgate title Gender and Communications at Work (Barrett/Davidson).
Bob Garlick (Business Book Talk) chats with Gloria Moss about this fascinating subject and delves into the root causes of the differences between men and women.
“We find out some amazing stuff, including the fact that men don’t see as many colours as women. The research in this book is topnotch and I see this book becoming a standard for anyone who needs to understand the importance of designing for specific demographics. A must-read for marketers, advertisers, HR managers, and even game developers. “
Gloria is the author of Gender, Design and MarketingJust three of the burgeoning Linked-in Groups associated with Gower Authors. Why not visit our webpage Gower on Linkedin to see more about these and other Groups and if you like the look of what you see, take the plunge and join the Group?
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Karen E. Klein is a Los Angeles-based writer who covers entrepreneurship and small-business issues. She features advice from experts in her twice-weekly ’Smart Answers’ columns in Businessweek. In December she featured Gower author Daphne Halkias on her book Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
In the Column, Klein points out that family-owned companies account for 80 percent of all businesses worldwide, and about one-third of them are owned by women. Although recent research and census data shows that daughters and wives are increasingly taking over family businesses, few studies have been done on the process.Daphne Halkias is a social science researcher at Cornell University and senior research fellow at the Center for Young & Family Enterprise at the University of Bergamo in Italy, and is seeking to address this in her new book.
With more women taking over family-owned companies, the handover isn’t always smooth, Halkias seeks to illuminate the process of father-daughter succession around the globe and find ways to encourage it. Edited excerpts of their conversation are featured in Klein’s Column.
Daphne Halkias is also editor of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs, and has a number of forthcoming titles at Gower.
