Book Review – If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons From Bold Women, Amb. Nikki Haley
By Natalie Newman, League of Our Own Washington Intern and University of Washington student
We all know women who are amazing, productive, strong, courageous, and most of all, can get stuff done! All true, these thoughts are expressed by former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley in her latest book If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons From Bold Women.
Haley takes the reader through ten brilliant and impressive stories of women in leadership, motherhood, adolescence, professional life, and more. I admire their encouraging attitudes and accomplishments. The women commended in the book are some of Haley’s most treasured inspirations, and for good reason.
Reading what each woman endured during her time of leadership moved me in a unique way. As a young female college student, I see how our world, at times, underestimates the strength and abilities of women and tries to push them aside. It has, unfortunately, been a part of the political realm for far too long. Haley lets us know it is no use sitting back and watching it happen – instead she leads by example, following her mom’s advice, “Don’t complain about it. Do something about it.”
Haley’s accomplishments and perseverance have been an incredible inspiration to many, and in a similar way, League of Our Own Washington works to fulfill the same mission by helping smart, dedicated, tenacious women achieve their goals of running for public office and serving their community.
Haley shares that among the most important things we can do is “push through the fear.” When you say and do as you think, stand up for what you believe in, and take each challenge as a new opportunity, the chances of being pushed aside quickly diminish. Claudette Colvin, Virginia Hall, and Amelia Earhart, are just a few of the women who took big, daunting steps toward a common goal: proving that anything is possible when you have the drive, audacity, and passion to get it done.
If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons From Bold Women is for everyone!
If you’re a woman who dreams big, we invite you to get involved in League of Our Own Washington. We work every day to empower women to run for public office by training, mentoring and coaching women leaders with the help they need to be successful candidates and effective leaders.