Kicking Ass in a Corset: Jane Austen’s 6 Principles for Living and Leading from the Inside Out
Andrea Kayne, "Kicking Ass in a Corset: Jane Austen’s 6 Principles for Living and Leading from the Inside Out"
English | ISBN: 1609387600 | 2021 | 207 pages | EPUB | 1067 KB
English | ISBN: 1609387600 | 2021 | 207 pages | EPUB | 1067 KB
What can organizational leaders in business, education, government, and most any enterprise learn from an unemployed, unmarried woman who lived in patriarchal, misogynistic rural England more than 200 years ago? As it turns out, a great deal. In identifying the core virtues of Austen’s heroines—confidence, pragmatism, diligence, integrity, playfulness, and humility—Andrea Kayne uncovers the six principles of internally referenced leadership that, taken together, instruct women how to tap into a deep well-spring of personal agency and an internal locus of control no matter what is going on around them. Utilizing practical exercises, real-life case studies, and literary and leadership scholarship,
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