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Are Women Better Leaders by Folkman-Zenger

03 Apr 2012 12:02 PM | Carol Wight

Women do it better than men.

Which gender supplies better leaders for organizations? Based on research conducted by Zenger Folkman, the authority in strengths-based leadership development, the answer is rather clear and quite shocking. As far as the 16 researched differentiating leadership competencies are concerned women excelled in a majority of areas.Below is the research of a sample of 7,280 leaders who had their leadership effectiveness evaluated in 2011. 64% of our data set was male (4651) and 36% was female (2629). The data represents managers and executives who completed our Extraordinary Leader 360 assessment in 2011. Our clients tend to be progressive, successful companies that have a strong belief in leadership development. This is not a global random sample of leaders, but rather a sampling of male and female leaders from high performing companies. Perhaps the differences are more pronounced in this data because the organizations supported the development
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Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women (by Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone)

27 Jun 2011 5:46 PM | Carol Wight

HBR Harvard Business Review June 2011
The finding: There’s little correlation between a group’s collective intelligence and the IQs of its individual members. But if a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises.

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How our generation of women blew it … presented by Facebook’s Sandberg

07 Jun 2011 10:53 AM | Katie Snapp

… and nails why women under-representation is occurring.
This is the reason Skirt Strategies exists! YAY!

FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality

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The Launch of the Leader

26 May 2011 2:48 PM| Anonymous

Readying Women to Respond to the Calling

The signposts are significant and the undercurrent is palpable.First there was the news that 51% of the US workforce was now women. Then there were various studies that revealed the lopsidedness of the softer gender at the higher levels – to the tune of only 18% of leadership

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Feminine Model
26 May 2011 2:48 PM| Anonymous

The feminine model is changing … boy, is it! And good thing.

Historically, we have viewed an effective workplace as a locale for leaders that exhibit control, decisiveness, top-down resolve, and a mannish milieu (yes, mannish is a word. I looked it up). Irrefutably good characteristics, but a little

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Gender Equity as an Investment Concept (Joe Keefe, President and CEO of Pax World Management LLC (Pax World))

28 Jun 2011 8:11 AM | Carol Wight

PAX World Investments Report UPDATED 2011

In this “paper titled Gender Equality as an Investment Concept, which argues that investors can promote gender equality and women’s empowerment while potentially reaping financial returns. Keefe cites evidence which supports the idea that businesses embracing gender diversity may be better positioned for long‐term financial success”

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Women-savvy companies: a better investment bet (Article by Linda Tarr-Whelan)

27 Jun 2011 4:09 PM | Carol Wight

Women at the Top Blog Post April, 25, 2011

Typically, investors focus on bottom-line results, sustainability and social responsibility – but that is no longer enough. Smart investors should bet on women-savvy companies to get what Deloitte, the consultancy, calls the “gender dividend”.

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The Workplace of the Future

26 May 2011 2:48 PM | Anonymous

Close Encounters of the Female Kind

Boy meets girl. Girl gets education. Girl gets job. Girl goes to work … for boy. And then LOTS of other girls join in, and move swiftly up the ladder. How would you write this ending? Do the boys start getting nervous? Does the girl in the workplace create a dilemma?

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Queen Bee

26 May 2011 2:48 PM| Anonymous

What Confident Women Know about Looking Composed

Last month I sauntered into a room full of association members, all gathering at lunchtime to hear me talk. The leadership subject was a familiar one to me, so assurance in the content was a cinch. But other issues loomed: the gum I had just pulled from bottom of my heel while coming down the hallway (who has the indecency to drop gum on carpet?), the faceless audience, and that ever-unknown room set-up. Ever had to speak to a group where massive pillars dotted the middle of the room?

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