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Women and Leadership

How can the experiences of this woman soldier help you excel as a leader?

You don’t have to join the military, spend as much time as a leader, or get as many grey hairs as Colonel Jo Rusin now has (nice current studio photo) to learn the inside secrets to thriving in organizations dominated by men. After spending nearly a quarter of a century as a woman soldier, she can hold her own with men and she can tell you how to do this as well. Now back in print, Move to the Front is a quick easy-to-read guide to overcoming the obstacles women face in the business world and the military, including:

• how to avoid being stereotyped into traditional women’s roles;
• how to deal with sexual harassment and male bullies;
• and how to maintain emotional toughness and stamina while juggling family responsibilities. In fact the coping skills you will learn just in the chapter, Never Let Them See You Cry, are worth the price of the book.
• Spiced with over 60 stories and real life examples from other women soldiers, Move to the Front gives solutions right from the trenches!.

Click here to learn more about Colonel Jo Rusin, US Army Retired,
and why is she important to you and your organization.

A Story on Leadership

During the Gulf War, Colonel Rusin sat down for chow next to a young man who was a tanker in the replacement battalion of her brigade. As they talked, she learned he had been in the battalion for four days waiting to go forward to a division. After talking about where he was from, the soldier said to her, “So, Ma’am, what’s your job around here?” When she said, “I’m the brigade commander.” the soldier was clearly embarrassed, however, Colonel Rusin considers his comment one of the highest compliments she ever received. If he had been in the unit for four days and didn’t know the brigade commander was a woman, then clearly she and her subordinate leaders were doing things right.