why respect women

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1. 27. S-H-E is the best leader.
   Women will rule. (Period.) And itʼs a great-necessary thing! Logic: Women bring to the workplace the perfect (big word!) skill set for the emergent new economy. Judy Rosener lays it out brilliantly in Americaʼs Competitive Secret: Women Managers. Women, she enumerates, tend to: link rather than rank workers…favor an interactive/collaborative leadership style, believe that empowerment beats top-down decision making…sustain fruitful collaborations…are comfortable sharing information…see re-distribution of power as victory, not surrender…favor multidimensional feedback…value technical and interpersonal skills equally; individual and group
   contributions equally…readily accept ambiguity…honor intuition as well as pure rationality…are
   inherently flexible…and appreciate cultural diversity.

   What a list! Of course not all men are hopeless on all these dimensions. Yet there is a clear “central tendency” which differs among men and women—and which will increasingly, especially in the mid-to-long term, result in womenʼs accession to the top ranks of leadership. (Far beyond the pathetic statistic, circa 2003, that women occupy only 8 of 500 CEO jobs
   among the Fortune 500.) Given the above, I have no trouble with the conclusion of a 2000
   BusinessWeek Special Report: “As leaders, women rule: New studies find that female managers
   outshine their male counterparts in almost every measure.” More humbly, I simply suggest
   that women are the most underrated, under-attended answer to the always pressing question
   of “Where do we find more/better leaders?”

   ~ from This I Believe by Tom Peters (pdf)

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2. PS: Btw as I was composing that post, my wife kept calling me for dinner, and finally I told her not to bug me while I was doing something ‘important’! Oh what an irony… 😈

   …its so so easy to forget these things…

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3. “it’s really unfortunate that man got away with everything for centuries while society ignored women. Half the population of this planet was neglected, humiliated and treated as doormats. Even the Bible story tells you that the woman is made out of the rib of man. What preposterous nonsense! You see, women’s intelligence is lost for this culture. Not only here, it’s the same everywhere.”

   ~UG

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4. Nice post. Apt and great Thoughts!!

   Reminds me of SHE that I posted some times back.

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