The Gender-Balanced Workplace – A beautiful sight!
If you have ever worked in such a place, you know it. Rosabeth-Moss Kanter of Harvard Business School defines the tipping point at 30%. In most leadership studies, we are barely at 20%. We don’t have to rule the place, but we do need to be in an environment where you are not seen as a weirdo if you try something natural: like collaborating with the non-usual suspects for insight and creativity, like illustrating empathy when a business discussion taps into emotion of the teammates, or like feeling for undercurrents when a negotiation is taking place.
I would like to believe there are more and more companies out there with that initiative, but sadly there are so few. Even the companies with Diversity & Inclusion try to fill the pipeline, but so far not many are getting nearly close enough to the same level that they strive for.
Where would you start?
Regardless of your level in an organization, the friend in the mirror is the first step. I sometimes use the term “Think Globally. Act Personally.” It is a start. And as the theory goes, “a thousand points of light” to realize the change on a bigger scale.
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Tata!