article_snippet: As my former Downing Street colleague, now of Portland PR, Steve Morris, said at the launch: "If you write a book called 'Winners' and it goes straight to the charity shops, don't be surprised if people call you a loser.
article_snippet: Fear of failure being a bigger driver for most of my interviewees than any joy in success, this was not something I was prepared to allow.
article_snippet: At every single one of the nine or so events I have so far done about the book, and in several of the many interviews, I have been asked -- usually but not always by a woman -- a version of this same question: "Do men and women win in different ways?
article_snippet: , this is embarrassing," -- I was answering a question I had not been asked, namely "why aren't there more women in the book?' rather than the one I had been asked, "do men and women win in different ways?
article_snippet: but Grace's generation needed to win the battle in terms of the culture of the land.
article_snippet: Men also didn't appreciate either that reality, or that it therefore becomes harder for a woman to win than a man in many sets of circumstances.
article_snippet: You can't win, said I. So come on.
highlights_snippet: Alastair Campbell wants CNN users to help Alastair Campbell answer the question: "Do men and women win in different ways?