Playing To Win

Product Description

Playing to Win is a handbook for women who want to be successful. Karren Brady did it. At 23 she took over as Managing Director of Birmingham City Football Club becoming the youngest ever female Managing Director of a UK PLC when it floated in 1997. Although the club was the football equivalent of a rubbish dump" & women were barely even seen on the terraces in the early 90s Karren Brady persuaded her backers to acquire the club & single--mindedly revolutionised it clearing the debt taking Birmingham City into the Premier League & transforming it into a viable business. How did she do it? How did a 23--year--old woman with little previous experience at this level of management walk into a mans world & achieve such success? In Playing to Win she reveals her secrets & shares with other women the techniques they can adopt to succeed in their own lives on their own terms. Her ten motivational rules are self--help classics: ambition determination courage charm hard work attitude humour confidence focus & communication. Playing to Win shows women how to grow in each of these areas & achieve the success they dream of. & like all great self--help her principles apply across all areas of experience -- work & personal life. Playing to Win is a handbook for success in any situation. Moving from Karrens story how she has transformed a business & maintained a full & stable personal life to a chapter--by--chapter study of the ten principles successful women need to adopt Playing to Win is essential reading for women who want to have it all."