The Net Result - Book 2

Lucille Jr. Orr

Description

This second book in a series of four books; includes the success stories of business and professional women who won the title of "South Australian Executive Woman of the Year". These women are the founders of the prestigious, "Telstra Business Women's Awards".

This series of books have been used in "Career Study Classes" in High Schools, Universities and Business Colleges since the nineties.

Women wanting to start their own small businesses and those keen to climb corporate ladders or sit on company boards have all gained the valuable knowledge they needed from these pioneering women's stories.

Be sure to collect the four volumes in this set of invaluable books that were originally published for the member of the Australian Executive Women's Network.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• Success
• Self-help
• Personal Growth

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780987159847
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Net Result
Winners Stories – Book 2
Australian Executive Woman of the Year Awards
 
 
Published by LUCILLE ORR
Edited by Nancy Flannery
for the
Australian Executive Women’s Network
Why You Will Love This Book
The success stories, personally written by members of the Australian Executive Women’s Network, who entered and won State Awards in the Telecom Australian Executive Woman of the Year award (now known as the prestigious Telstra Business Women’s Award) are documented in this wonderful book.
Since 1993 these stories have assisted thousands of young women (and men) to gain the self-confidence they needed to plan their own future careers. The books in “The Net Result” series have been used by teachers and lecturers extensively in schools, business colleges and universities. Career and Business Planning courses have been developed from the true, practical experiences shared by these women who tell exactly how they achieved their individual success in business and the professions.
You will learn how they overcame difficulties and persevered to make their goals and dreams come true. The further education many undertook to climb corporate ladders and how at times they even changed career paths or worked just for the experience to gain valuable knowledge and the support of Mentors.
All the women gave the same advice – you can get everything you want in your life if you believe in yourself and focus on your future and not let anyone or anything stand in your way.
Dedication
To our fathers, sons, life and business partners and to the men we have used as mentors, who have willingly shared their knowledge and experience to enhance our opportunities as business and professional women.
We also dedicate this book to Nancy Robinson Flannery who died on 1 st September 2011. Nancy will be with us forever in our hearts and minds as she did so much for the Australian Executive Women’s Network and its members.
 


An anthology by national and state titleholders of the Australian Executive Woman of the Year, 1992.
Edited by Nancy Robinson Flannery Foreword: Leonie Still
Produced and Published by Lucille Orr for the Australian Executive Women’s Network
107 Carrington Street, Adelaide SA 5000 Telephone: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Lucille Orr – Mobile [phone]
Re-designed as an e-Book, by Steve Orr Email: [e-mail]
Published in eBook format by Lucille Orr Converted by http://www.ebookit.com
Copyright 2012 Lucille Orr, All rights reserved.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9871-5984-7
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the consent of the publisher.
All the stories in this book are true and personally written by the women in the book.
Foreword by Professor Leonie V. Still
Dean, faculty of commerce University of Western Sydney, Nepean
The last thirty years in Australia have been a “golden age” for women in terms of career advancement. No longer forced to resign from organisations on the advent of marriage, women can now forge any career path they choose if they have the drive, enthusiasm and desire to achieve and to make something of themselves. Whether it’s a career in a large organisation, or the thrill of self-employment, women have many opportunities to test their potentiality. To the career oriented woman in the 1990s, the world is indeed her ‘oyster’!
This year’s contributors to The Net Result 2 represent just how women have progressed in terms of their career paths. The women include two engineers and a vet, a publisher, a tourist operator, a funeral director, a number of training, speaking and seminar presenters and a florist.
Not so long ago many of these careers would not have been considered by women, let alone been open to them! When their stories are read, there is a pattern of risk taking, determination, goal setting, hard work, enterprise, high professional standards, the wisdom and drive to change direction when necessary and the lack of aggressive feminism.
However, despite the progress there is still the element of female-pioneering (such as the engineer from North Queensland and the vet in rural Western Australia). Let us hope that such pioneering never dies; that we never become too blasé for there to be no new fields to conquer or new paths to tread.
Many of the stories also concern achievement in small business and entrepreneurial ventures rather than in large corporations. The women who have sought that career direction mirror a world-wide trend: the movement of women into self-employment to gain autonomy, self-direction and career satisfaction through their own efforts rather than at the direction of others. There is no better way to avoid the ‘glass ceiling’ than to become managing director of your own enterprise!
Another theme also emerges: despite their achievements the women have managed to keep their sense of humour, to show warmth and compassion and to develop philosophies which have stood them in good stead despite obstacles and difficulties.
In six years Australia moves into the 21 st Century. The women contained in this book thus represent the foundation and future on which other women can build. What exciting adventures lie ahead for women? Only time will tell. In the meantime today’s women are forging ahead and testing the boundaries. Out of such activity will come opportunities for other women as new paths are opened, new skills developed, and new contributions made to the benefit of all.
This book also has a dedication to the men in our lives – those who have both helped us and watched our progress. It seems fitting then to offer this encouragement from the great male adventurer, Don Quixote:
I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha,
My destiny call and I go
And the wild winds of fortune will carry me forward,
Oh! Whither so ever they go,
Whither so ever they go,
Onward to Glory I go!
May all women; including those featured in this book, find even greater destiny and glory in the days ahead.
Preface by Nancy Robinson Flannery
Consultant Editor
Although the series title The Net Result was – and still is – an appropriate one, we could just as well have used the title Celebration, for that is also intrinsic in the message. We are simply celebrating the varied careers of women: successful executive women who are a force to emulate.
Sight should not be lost, however, of the fact that the achievements here recorded are but a small sample of the tens of thousands of Australian women in executive and small-business roles. We celebrate their success too.
The contributors to The Net Result 2 are to be congratulated, not only for their national and state titles in a prestigious award, but also for their courage to enter the Award, and the courage to tell their stories frankly (their failures, hiccups, frustrations as well as the high spots) in the belief that others may learn from their experiences.
It has been my privilege to have met most of the contributors and to have made faxed, telephoned and mailed contact with them all – spread as they are throughout the nation, indeed the world. My only regret, as a woman who unashamedly celebrated her 64 th birthday while working on this book, is that I wasn’t privy to all the combined wisdom of these people when I was younger. For you, the reader, things can be different.
My role as editor included the co-planning of the book with the publisher Lucille Orr, and the welding of the dedicated in-house team. I could wish for no more loyal, patient and good-natured setter of typeface than Carole Weedon, while the “baby” of the team, Sandra Caretti, has graphic art abilities and an acceptance of hard work well beyond the expectations of her age. The four of us have done a lot of laughing, and some creative brainstorming during our weekly production meetings.
How satisfying it has been to us that our first book in this series ( The Net Result I , 1992) has been useful in providing a better understanding of the upwardly mobile business or professional woman. In particular, we’ve been warmed by stories filtering back of women who, stumbling upon the book in stores or on library shelves, have been given a glimpse of a galaxy they’d thought was unattainable, and who were thus inspired to take their own first entrepreneurial steps. How wonderful to know that a translation into Japanese has been made by Nobuko Kobayashi.
Because I believe it’s as relevant to this book as to the last, please bear with me while I take an excerpt from that Preface:
Most of the authors had to overcome hesitancy at writing in the first person instead of the anonymous third person of their corporate reports or the figures of their balance sheets. Their reluctance has been summarised by one of the entrants to the 1992 Award who … said: “I found it surprisingly difficult to compile my ‘life story’. Writing about myself and my small achievements made me feel self-conscious and uncomfortable. When I spoke to other women about this I found that, they too, had difficulty standing up and saying, ‘yes, I am good at this’, or, ‘yes, I did that’.
I think our discomfiture arises from the fact that we are conditioned not to put ourselves forward or talk about ourselves or our achievements. The unhappy result of all of this is that women’s contributions to society go largely un-noticed and young women are denied the positive role models they desperately seek.”
Is it because “big boys don’t cry” and don’t discuss their family backgrounds, that their female counterparts making their way in the corporate world are having to play the same game?
In August 1993, expatriate Australian write, Jill Ker Conway, answered some of these questions in an interview with John Lyons for The Australian Magazine. In expressing concern at an historical fact that women “write in the passive, selling themselves short” and at what she se