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Power Through Partnership
How Women Lead Better Together Paperback
by Betsy Polk and Maggie Ellis Chotas

Drawing from their own twelve-year partnership and from interviews with 125 women business partners across the world, Betsy Polk and Maggie Chotas have learned something powerful: when women work together, they discover a level of support, balance, confidence, and accountability and a freedom to be themselves that is rarely found in other work relationships.

Heroic male partnerships are a staple business success story, but female partnerships rarely receive the same kind of attention. Power Through Partnership is a call for women to recognize and build on the inherent strengths that make them uniquely able to create successful trust-based professional relationships. Polk and Chotas demolish the myths that keep women from collaborating and then offer readers advice for handling potential challenges-like finding the best partner, dealing with conflict, facing fears, taking risks, and knowing when to let go of a partnership.

Featuring lessons learned from women partners in all kinds of industries, this book shows that when women collaborate-combining complementary skills, pushing ego aside, and supporting each other-they can work as full equals to achieve something that’s exponentially greater than the achievements of the two working alone.