cover image Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World

Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World

Birute Regine. Prometheus Books, $19 (299pp) ISBN 978-1-61614-169-1

Consultant and developmental psychologist Regine (coauthor, The Soul at Work) compiles wisdom drawn from several years of original interviews with 60 successful women around the world, including CEOs and businesswomen, U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Johnson, former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell, and others whose ""achievements demonstrate how feminine power is changing our businesses, our organizations and our world into better places to work and live."" In flowing, occasionally dense prose, this intellectual and dynamic treatise on women in the modern workplace demonstrates convincingly how empathy, emotional and strength and an embrace of vulnerability are changing traditional, male-dominated management models. Declaring the Era of Women, Regine celebrates big picture thinkers as well as mindful feelers, a powerful message reinforced by the impressive professional biographies of each subject.