
his author's current email signature sums up this book in one line: "When sleeping women wake, mountains move." Chinese proverb
During the recent 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management nominations, I came across this book and downloaded the first free chapter to consider it before I purchased. I devoured the first chapter and knew I needed the book, fast.
Although this book is written to speak to women in business, it affects all women and can walk you through the transitions from what the author refers to as an Amazon, to a Shape Shifter to an Iron Butterfly as we work through male dominated industries and old ideas about the roles of women. She takes her readers on a gentle path of exposition, awakening and action so smoothly and tenderly you don't realize what she is building you up for until you arrive at the chapter that speaks to you.
Ms. Regine develops a relationship with her reader that allows them to get comfortable through the initial chapters and then she becomes more intimate by revealing more about herself and her profiled Iron Butterflies as the reader travel through the book. What struck me is after reading the profiles of many of the 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management, I noticed Iron Butterfly qualities in the testimonials men and women were giving about these successful women in a typically male industry.
I not only recommend this book for women in business and in any relationship; but for the men who wish to lead them with a more productive style; abandoning the gladiator techniques that are falling away in this new era of women.