Book excerpt: Skirt Strategies Second Edition (2012) offers a refreshing approach to leadership ideas, techniques, and reminders for women in positions of influence. Inspiring, interesting, and filled with ideas and reminders for keeping you on top of your leadership style. Use Skirt Strategies for conducting mentoring sessions, leading discussions in women's network groups or mastermind meetings, starting a book club at work, or journaling your personal leadership trek. Skirt Strategies is filled with over 200 pages of leadership techniques that address your style, situations with male-dominated workplaces, effective approaches to difficult situations, and how to avoid the pitfalls of a typical female leader. Some tips remind you of the critical fundamentals for anyone needing to maintain their influence, while others take you to a more challenging level. Occasionally you'll see a light-hearted no-brainer that we enjoy sharing. This is a terrific resource for initializing a women's network discussion, as well as a rich resource for scheduling mentoring sessions around. You'll never be at a loss again for a topic to spark a lively interaction.