Following is a partial resource list of research, organizations and individuals that are influencing the creation of the Rising Tide Leadership Institute.<\/p>\n
10×10 Campaign and Girl Rising Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide<\/strong> Hopes Are High<\/strong> How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life<\/strong> Innovation and Entrepreneurship<\/strong> Improving Women\u2019s Lives: World Bank Actions Since Beijing<\/strong> League of Extraordinary Women: 60 Influencers Who Are Changing the World<\/strong> On Becoming A Leader<\/strong> Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration<\/strong> The Effective Executive<\/strong> UN Women \/ United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women<\/strong> Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change around the World<\/strong> Womenable: Women\u2019s Economic Empowerment: As Our Name Implies, Womenable Is Focused on One Thing: Enabling Women<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>10×10 is a global campaign to educate and empower girls – working to create a ripple effect that will transform communities for generations.<\/em>
\nAt the center of this campaign is an innovative feature film, Girl Rising<\/em>, which journeys around the globe to witness the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world. From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins, Girl Rising<\/em> spotlights the stories of unforgettable girls born into unforgiving circumstances. It captures their dreams, their voices, and their remarkable lives. See Girl Rising trailer.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nKristof, Nicholas D., Sheryl WuDunn \/ New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 – Print<\/em>
\nUndertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.<\/p>\n
\nNew York: UN Women, 2012 – Web: www.unwomen.org<\/a><\/em>
\nLecture by Michelle Bachelet at symposium sponsored by Japan Liaison Conference for the Promotion of Gender Equality. Posted: Tuesday, 13 November 2012.<\/p>\n
\nBarsh, Joanna, Susie Cranston, Geoffrey Lewis \/ New York: Crown, 2009 – Print<\/em>
\nA five-year research study conducted by Joanna Barsh (senior partner at McKinsey) in order to determine how women lead differently and what the value of this \u2018different leadership\u2019 brings to the world. An important work in language, story and concepts.<\/p>\n
\nDrucker, Peter \/ New York: Harper & Row, 1985 – Print<\/em>
\nThis is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America\u2019s entrepreneurial economy.<\/p>\n
\nCarlsson, Helene \/ Rep. World Bank Gender and Development Group, 2005 Web: www.siteresources.worldbank.org<\/a><\/em>
\nThe World Bank is committed to helping member countries fulfill the Beijing Platform for Action and recognizes that gender equality is critical to development and to poverty reduction. The World Bank has addressed gender issues since the 1970s, but the Bank\u2019s emphasis in this area increased following the 1995 Beijing Conference. Today, gender equality is explicitly recognized as essential to achieving the World Bank\u2019s poverty reduction mission.<\/p>\n
\nMcGirl, Ellen \/ Fast Company, July\/August 2012 – Magazine – Read Article<\/a><\/em>
\nThe previously untold story of how an unprecedented network of high-achieving women from the world\u2019s largest companies, innovative startups, philanthropic organizations, government, and the arts combined forces to change the lives of girls and women everywhere.<\/p>\n
\nBennis, Warren \/ New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1989 – Print<\/em>
\nDeemed \u201cthe dean of leadership gurus\u201d by Forbes magazine, Warren Bennis has for years persuasively argued that leaders are not born\u2014they are made. Delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to achieve it, his classic work On Becoming a Leader has served as a source of essential insight for countless readers.<\/p>\n
\nBennis, Warren, Patricia Ward Biederman \/ Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1997 – Print<\/em>
\nIn \u2018Organizing Genius\u2019, America\u2019s most respected leadership expert teams with a veteran journalist to explore the forces that foster creative collaboration.<\/p>\n
\nDrucker, Peter\/ New York: Harper & Row, 1966 – Print<\/em>
\nThe measure of the executive is the ability to \u201cget the right things done.\u201d This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.<\/p>\n
\n2012 – Web: www.unwomen.org<\/a><\/em>
\nIn July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In doing so, UN Member States took an historic step in accelerating the Organization\u2019s goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women.<\/p>\n
\nNelson, Alyse \/ San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012 – Print<\/em>
\nThe beginning of the book gives a good introduction to the emerging \u2018movement\u2019 of empowering women in the world. Very inspiring stories of courageous women bringing hope and change around the globe.<\/p>\n
\nWeeks, Julie R., President & CEO of Womenable \/ 2012 – Web: www.womenable.com<\/a><\/em>
\nJulie Weeks has over 30 years\u2019 experience in the fields of research design and analysis, public policy, and women\u2019s enterprise development.<\/p>\n