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Informationen zum Autor Claire Shipman is a journalist! author! and public speaker. She’s the author! along with Katty Kay! of two New York Times bestsellers! Womenomics: Work Less! Achieve More! Live Better and The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know . Before turning to writing! Claire spent almost three decades as an award-winning television journalist. For the last fourteen years! Claire was a regular contributor to Good Morning America and other national broadcasts for ABC News. Before that! she served as White House correspondent for NBC News! where she regularly reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News and Today . Prior to that! she worked for CNN for a decade! covering the White House! and she was also posted in Moscow for five years! reporting on the fall of the Soviet Union. Claire’s coverage from Moscow helped CNN earn a National Headliners Award and a coveted Peabody Award. She received a DuPont Award and an Emmy Award for coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student uprising! as well as a DuPont Award for CNN’s coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. She graduated from Columbia College and later earned a master’s degree from the School of International Affairs there. She’s now a member of Columbia’s board of trustees. She lives in Washington! DC! with her husband and their two children and three dogs. Visit Claire online at www.theconfidencecode.com. Katty Kay is the Washington! DC! anchor for BBC World News America . She is a regular guest on NBC's Meet the Press and MSNBC's Morning Joe . She lives in Washington! DC! with her husband and four children. Klappentext WOMENOMICS is the 4-Hour Weekwork for women: a guide that shows every professional woman can work and have time for kids, elderly parents, or that marathon she's always wanted to run. Veteran journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay marshal the evidence to show how women's management style is ideally suited to the new business world, resulting in more profitable companies with happier employees. They also show how women can use this power to get what they really want- more time and freedom in their jobs without falling off the professional ladder. Most women will happily trade some responsibility and some cash for more time and freedom in their jobs without falling off the professional ladder. Most women will happily trade some responsibility and some cash for more time-that's the new currency. Both positive and practical, WOMENOMICS shows women how to redefine success, be more productive, say no, and find jobs that don't require an all-or-nothing lifestyle. Shipman and Kay give personal accounts from their own lives- the mistakes as well as the triumphs- and they share the stories of women around the country who have carved out great work-life scenarios. Above all they stay positive, encouraging and humorous. Zusammenfassung “A personal! provocative! and challenging book for career women who want less guilt! more life.” —Diane Sawyer Womenomics! the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay! is an invaluable guide for this g...
