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Research Summary: Female Leadership Advantage

Research Summary: Female Leadership Advantage

Title: The Female Leadership Advantage: An Evaluation of the Evidence Study: The Female Leadership Advantage: An Evaluation of the Evidence (Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli, The Leadership Quarterly 2003) Finding: Women have some advantages in leadership style, but...

How to be a Game Changer

Women are often told not to play the business game by the same rules as the men. We don’t fare well when we do. But what are we supposed to do? Birute gives us an awesome example of what a female game changer looks and acts like. Go Celeste! (and Jane!) – InPower...

Leadership Skill:  Hearing Bad News

Leadership Skill: Hearing Bad News

GUEST AUTHOR: ANN TIMMONS It takes a lot of humility to be a good leader. You have to be personally strong enough to hear bad news without blaming the messenger.  Ann does a great job of helping us focus on this key leadership skill and reminding us why developing our...

Research Summary: Are women good negotiators?

Title: Are women good negotiators? Study: Reversing the Gender Gap in Negotiations: An Exploration of Stereotype Regeneration (Laura J. Kray, Adam D. Galinsky, Leigh Thompson. Elsevier 2000) Finding: Women outperform men in negotiation styles when they are told that...

INSPIRATION: Perspective

A few nights ago I wrote a brilliant piece. Just brilliant. I was so proud. I sent it off for comment, so sure I’d get back kudos. What came back an hour before I went to bed was a suggestion to completely reframe it. *Sigh* After a momentary whine, I did my...

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2012: The Gate To The Garden Is Open

I was asked to sit on a panel at The Economist 2012 conference, which focuses on predictions for the coming year. My assignment was to make a prediction about the workplace and jobs. Given that I look at organizations as complex systems, which are non-linear and...

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