Stiletto Network

This informative book highlights the groundbreaking movement of trailblazing women and their professional groups. During the past few years, professional women's groups have been coalescing in every major American city, collaborating to achieve clout and success--calling themselves "Power Bitches," "Brazen Hussies," and "S.L.U.T.S.: Successful Ladies Under Tremendous Stress." This new girls' network is alive and set to hyperdrive! These pages are not only about celebrating these extraordinary women--from captains of industry to aspiring entrepreneurs--who have come together to celebrate, unwind, debate, and compare notes. In Stiletto Network, you'll learn about: - what happens when these women leave the table, - how they mine their collective intelligence to realize their dreams or champion a cause, - how they uplift their friends and push them forward, - and how they join forces to ensure each woman gets whatever it is she needs to accomplish her goals. Sharing story after story of extraordinary women banding together to help other extraordinary women, Stiletto Network is both a celebration and a call to action to a better way of doing business.

PAMELA RYCKMAN has written for "The New York Times," Financial Times, Fortune.com/CNNMoney, "International Herald Tribune," "The New York Observer," and "The New York Sun," among other publications. Prior to becoming a journalist, she performed strategy work for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction 1 A Force to Be Reckoned With 2 Ladies Who Lunch 3 Even a Live Wire Needs a Connection 4 "Girlpreneurs” Rising 5 Lady 2.0 6 The Comfort Formula 7 The Stiletto Network Revolution 8 Walk the Talk 9 Big Motor Girls 10 Shake Your Moneymaker 11 Belizean Grove: The World's Ultimate Old Girls' Club Conclusion: Creating Your Own Stiletto Network Index