title: Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life
author:  Nancy D O'Reilly 
description: "The women contributing to the book share amazing stories of overcoming obstacles in their personal and professional lives.... This book puts it all out on the table and gives women in leadership roles the upsides and the downsides of strides made by women in business today. And, it gives power to the notion that women can be successful leaders at all types of work." - SeattlePI.com
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  # LEADING  
  WOMEN
  
  ## 20 Influential Women  
  Share Their Secrets to
  
  ## LEADERSHIP, BUSINESS, AND LIFE
  
  NANCY D. O’REILLY, PSYD
  
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  # CONTENTS
  
  [INTRODUCTION: ](text00004.html)
  
  [Part One:  
  Mastering Our External Environment](text00005.html)
  
  [From Oppression to Leadership: Women Redefine Power, by Gloria
  Feldt](text00006.html#C1)
  
  [The Power of the Podium: Challenges and Opportunities to Be Seen and Heard,
  by Lois Phillips, PhD](text00007.html#C2)
  