Business is business? That’s what they say…but business is being
done a new way. Massive technological connectivity and access to
tidal waves of information is causing a shift in society,
workers attitudes and how business is done.
Rapid changes in technology are causing disruption in the way
corporations do business. Communication is now digital. Products
are now digital. Marketing and delivery of product and services
must be done in a different way.
Added to that, the evolution of global business environments has
significantly increased competition and stress on the
traditional corporation.
One other important shift is that now the “knowledge worker”
(skilled and experienced) is now becoming the most valuable
asset of the corporation versus capital equipment and they are
leaving corporations by the thousands.
So what is a corporation to do? Find and retain the best people.
I believe a new, better corporate structure is evolving and it
will take women of ability paired with men of ability to make it
the best and most profitable business. However, few women make
it to the top management positions.
This is where many women’s development programs have failed.
They simply addressed the soft skills of mindset and confidence
for women.
The truth is that successful business is led by people of
experience with specific business skills AND the right mindset.
This is why we must develop women managers further through
learning experiences, coaching and training that insure the
results a corporation needs to obtain highly skilled women
leaders.
Here are some reasons why we need more women as leaders in
business:
1. Women, on average, are terrific communicators and tend to be
better at it than men. It’s the information age and it’s highly
competitive. This means companies will need more skilled
communicators involved in all aspects of business where good,
clear communication is critical to generate revenue, control
expense, manage top talent and build a loyal customer base. 2.
Global business will require expanding business networks. Women
are natural networkers. 3. Diverse viewpoints can result in
better, more creative solutions to business issues. Both women
and men are needed to address business issues effectively. 4.
Keeping a talented knowledge worker will require relationship
strategies. Women instinctively care about building
relationships which is why they tend to gravitate toward jobs
where building relationships is a major component such as
Marketing or HR. 5. Increased competition will require the
resources of creative thinkers to develop new products and
services that meet the needs and desires of the marketplace. The
talent pool of creative leaders is doubled when more women
leaders are available. 6. Rapid change in technologies requires
more flexibility. Women have extensive multi-tasking abilities
as evidenced by women who manage business and families at the
same time. 7. Half of the workers available today are women.
Women in leadership roles can act as mentors to develop other
potential women leaders just as executive men have done for
years.
With all this said, women are still not reaching top levels in
management. There are several reasons for this.
Part of the reason is societal in that women were often not
included in business conversations as they were growing up so
they did not have the opportunity to learn. Part is that the
corporate structure was invented by men for the way men think
and work. Part is that women are still the primary managers of
the family and cannot always dedicate all their time to the
company.
In a recent survey conducted by Womencorp, there were some
striking differences between what men believed and what women
believed about the “why” women are not succeeding as corporate
business leaders.
Of the female respondents, 68.3% believe that lack of flexible
options for work is holding women back. 51.7% believe that lack
of confidence is also a contributing factor. 45% believe that
women aren’t given a chance because men stick together.
This was what one woman had to say about that subject: “This is
a very complex issue. What I have found, after seven years at {a
major corporation}, is that men seem to internally denigrate
qualified technical women (perhaps because of jealousy). They do
form cliques and do not wish to ‘include’ women in their
cliques. They are group-oriented, no doubt. They will hang with
other guys, just because they are guys. There are individual
males who communicate well with women, but they are few. Despite
years of emphasis on including women, promoting women, and
hiring women, I feel that the disparity of women in the business
world is growing, not shrinking. Still, both men and women do
not seem to ‘get it’. I wish I had something more positive and
constructive to give, but I do not.”
On the other hand, 53.7% of men believe that lack of flexible
options is holding women back. 32.3% said they feel the glass
ceiling is still firmly in place and just 17.9% believe that
women lack confidence.
Perhaps men don’t realize women lack confidence, whereas women
know how they feel. This mindset can be altered with a proper
development program for both women managers and men who manage
women.
This comment from one male participant is noteworthy: “Capable
women are often unfairly fast tracked early in their career to
positions that may demand experience to be successful over a
prolonged period. Found wanting, they are then niched in
dead-end executive roles. Rather like moving a ball player to
the majors too quickly because of their native talent. Their
“rookie” mistakes occur with too much exposure and can prove
fatal.”
But what difference does it make as to why few women have
achieved top leadership roles in business? The reason to know
why is because we can then use this information to develop
solutions.
The bottom line is that more women need to be in leadership
roles for many reasons including the 7 listed above. The
challenge is to find new ways to enable them to succeed at top
levels.
For both men and women respondents, they seem to feel that
coaching, mentoring and multi-day workshops are quite important
to help develop women leaders to their fullest potential.
The Womencorp Team agrees and is working to make a difference
for women in business. Would you like to help? Just take a
moment to fill in this quick 30 second survey:
For Women (http://www.womencorp.org/mensurvery-W3.php) For Men
(http://www.womencorp.org/mensurvery-M3.php)
Brian Kirk Womencorp (205) 835-8167 http://www.womencorp.or
Is it good to drink milk? The text is too long but worthwhile read….?
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The most important information dissemination my.
Not that, but I can make your text too long jajaja.
If I write bad is that I am leading a translator jaja
wow. Looks like you had allot of thought to this. My thoughts to this. People have been drinking milk for positively centuries and millenia. If you like it, drink it. If you don't, don't.
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Excellent essay. is that your writing or are you quoting someone? If it's the latter can you provide a citation or link to where you found it? I'd like to keep that in my personal folder of veg resources.
On another note: How come every time I try to post a long question it tells me I'm out of room?
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Wow that was long. I used to drink milk when I was a kid and I would always be coughing, getting ear infection, my thoat would hurt and the list goes on. All of that went away when I stopped drinking milk. I'm gonna star your "question" because I really liked it and it is so important.
How where you able to post such a long question? I don't think I can do that.
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I know more about milk than most people. I used to milk cows for a living as a young person. Then I was a pasteurisor in a dairy. Prior to that I went to agricultural college, but with respect, I haven´t time to read your "very" long question.
Milk is very good for you. Semi skimmed is better for dietary concerns, but above all it is the best way to get the necessary calcium your body needs.
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No antibiotics are allowed in milk for human consumption. None.
Not low levels, NONE.
Milk is checked many many times before it reaches the table.
So if you are against it, don't drink it! Why worry about what we are doing? It's our choice!
Oh, and don't cook your food either.
By the way, did you know that ants milk aphids? Is that unnatural too?
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I only read half of this before I got a little bored, sorry. Some of your references are wrong though, be sure to make the noninsignificant differentiation between BGH, a naturally occuring hormone that cows produce in order to produce milk, and rBGH or recombinant bovine growth hormone, the lab-produced hormone that is injected into cows in order to increase their milk production. Oh, and people drink goat's milk and sheep's milk, too, and have for thousands of years. There are probably other animals that are milked, too. Also, I've seen adult cats and dogs drink milk, actually knocking the top off of the colostrum milk container in the barn so they can reach the milk. It was almost really good, but your sources weren't all exactly on. If you're turning that in for credit, you might want to double check those.
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Who wrote this? You don't credit it, but it wasn't you; it says 'I had one patient who…'. You say elsewhere that you're 17.
I'm a vegan, but this essay has pissed me off. It is reproduced in shortened form inthe Cancer forum, titled 'Breast cancer and dairy???????' The text doesn't mention breast cancer, though.
Users of the Cancer forum are very used to people, often teenagers as here but always people who haven't had or studied cancer, posting their half-baked theories about what causes cancer and lecturing us on how to avoid or cure it.
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I drink organic milk. All milk is taken from cows that have been given the bovine growth horomones. These horomones make the cows have boils on the insides of their udders & sometimes they pop & leak pus into the milk. So unless you buy milk that says 'not treated by cows w/ bovine growth horomones' you are drinking up to 45% pus.
go organic
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And The Question Is?
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I couldn't make it all the way through your dribble.
Milk is good and good for you.
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Flexetarian vegan