More Women Leaders, Higher Profits, So What?
More women leaders at the C-suite increases net profits by 6%. What companies wouldn’t jump at this opportunity? Apparently most of them.
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More women leaders at the C-suite increases net profits by 6%. What companies wouldn’t jump at this opportunity? Apparently most of them.
To heal, and ultimately stop, gender bias paper cuts, follow these four steps.
1. Begin by finding supporters, raising their awareness and asking them to speak up when cuts occur.
Gender bias paper cuts are small acts such as being ignored, overlooked, and singled out. Members of the opposite sex often don’t notice the offending actions. Over time, these small cuts wear away our professional confidence, fortitude, and sense of belonging. It’s best to be prepared in advance and these 4 band-aids will help.
To avoid committing leadership suicide, know the rules of play, especially when leading in a crisis. Bev Scott, who just resigned as head of Boston’s public transportation system, the cranky and beloved MBTA, didn’t play by the rules. Learn from her mistakes.
Understanding race relations calls for empathic imagination. It means seeing that as the mother of a young white man I don’t have the same worry mothers of young black men have shared that their sons will encounter insults or dangerous acts of racism when they leave the house.
Once upon a time I worked in a forward thinking company. Diversity was a hot and much discussed topic well before it was lukewarm anywhere
I was not having it all, when Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, caused an uproar. When I stopped having the travel part of IT ALL, I had time to write that the real question is how to change the gender based determination of which ITs men can have and which ones women can have, and offer two solutions.
I once heard Maya Angelou say that we are all capable of each and every act, no matter how grand or horrid, that any other
Recently I attended two different meetings in which two different executives enlisted people to lead a specific change initiative. Each of these two leaders did something I call small actions BIG RESULTS.
Dear Billy:
With the smell of spring in the air and the Augusta Nationals just around the corner, I am enjoying the prospect of watching this year’s competition in person.
In my role as CEO of IBM, I regret to inform you that we are reducing our sponsorship by 50.8 percent. This is, not coincidentally, the percentage of women in the country’s population according to the 2010 census.
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