Why Women CEOs Are More Likely To Be Forced Out. “Corporate America is a man’s world,” says Carly Fiorina.
The former CEO of technology giant Hewlett-Packard was considered to be one of the most powerful women in business in 1999 when she became the first woman to head up a Fortune 20 company. Five and a half years later, after HP survived the collapse of the dotcom bubble but lost 40% of its stock value, Fiorina was forced out. It’s been nearly a decade since her departure, but Fiorina, who currently serves as chairman of the product philanthropy organization Good360, says corporate America is still very much a man’s world: “There are more women CEOs today, which is not an insignificant thing, but progress has been amazingly slow,” she says. Women make up 46.9% of the labor force, according to the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, but they made up just 3% of new CEOs in 2013, according to a study by the consulting firm Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company). The Inside Track “Companies need to rotate more women into line roles,” she says. How women can narrow the 'confidence gap' By Mary Civiello Gateway to success FORTUNE -- In a new book, The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know, two high-profile TV journalists, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, say women are less confident than men even when they are equally competent.
They cite studies that suggest this lack of confidence is getting in the way of more women getting ahead. The authors have seen it in themselves and in interviews with powerful people. As a communications coach for the last decade, I'm not surprised. In the last year it seems every other week there is an article or study or survey about executive presence as a challenge for women. MORE: 'Dress' yoga pants are coming to an office near you In my decade of coaching top executives, this is far more often the case with women. For instance, I once worked with a well-educated executive who was dealing with her fear of speaking. How Women Leaders Have Transformed Management. In a recent New York Times column, “How to Get a Job at Google,” Thomas Friedman interviews Laszlo Bock, the company’s senior vice president for people operations (which seems to be Google-speak for talent management).
Bock notes that because constant innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, people who succeed in the company “tend to be those with a lot of soft skills: leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability, and loving to learn and re-learn.” Bock ranks leadership as particularly important, but is careful to specify “emergent” rather than “traditional” leadership. “Traditional leadership is, were you president of the chess club? Were you vice president of sales? How quickly did you get there?” The emergent leadership Bock is talking about seems to be both non-positional (based on personal qualities rather than one’s title or formal power) and nonhierarchical (when people are comfortable acting from the center of a collaborative web).
How Much Do Your Leads Really Cost? Do you ever sit back and marvel at the flood of leads coming in?
You’ve got leads from ads, social media, trade shows, and referrals – but are you managing them effectively? What are the costs of all these leads to your organization? Today I’d like to walk you through three areas where you may be leaving money on the table – or throwing it out the window. 1. LinkedIn Behavior That Hints You Are Looking for a New Job. Are you telling everyone in your LinkedIn network that you are looking for a job?
I don’t mean by literally broadcasting it but through your actions on LinkedIn. There may be situations where you don’t care if people know you are looking – your company has been purchased or it’s in dire straits. It’s gotta be kinda obvious to everyone aware of the situation that people are probably looking for new opportunities just in case. Author #Interview – Josiane Chriqui Feigon – Smart Sales Manager. 5 Steps to Sales Productivity. RabidOfficeMonkey.com Awarded Top Tech Blog. RabidOfficeMonkey.com, a site owned and operated by Stacy Jackson and Alanna Jackson of Jackson Marketing Services, has won a Top Tech Blog Award today from Broadview Network.
As a Top Tech Blog, Broadview Networks will be featuring our site alongside some of the best blogs in the online technology, business innovation, and entrepreneurship community. Broadview Networks’ goal is to provide a comprehensive list, nominated by readers and staff, to help their clients and partners glean the best technology and business advice on the web. RabidOfficeMonkey.com is a site focused on issues facing entrepreneurs, small business owners, managers, marketers, and others involved in small business. Our aim is to create a community of small business subject-matter experts and practitioners sharing news, tips, and advice.
The site launched earlier this year, and has been growing quickly thanks to the participation from its regular content contributors and guest bloggers. Blogging Help! Wins Top Tech Blog Award from Broadview Networks. RabidOfficeMonkey.com is very pleased to announce that it has been chosen as a Top Tech Blog by Broadview Networks.
As a Top Tech Blog, Broadview Networks will be featuring our site alongside some of the best blogs in the online technology, business innovation, and entrepreneurship community. Broadview Networks’ goal is to provide a comprehensive list, nominated by readers and staff, to help their clients and partners glean the best technology and business advice on the web. [Video] 4 Tips to Avoid Pure Price Competition. Intuit Small Business Big Game. The opportunity of a lifetime. Social Media Networking. American Women Lose at Negotiation – Why Does that Happen? A recent survey issued from LinkedIn has emphasized that business professionals are not just uncomfortable with asking for better-paid salaries, but they’re additionally eager to skip the whole process as fast as possible.
What’s even worse is that women are the most reluctant when it comes to negotiating a matter. Specialists consider that this happens because American employees are used to paying the price that is being asked, without trying to bargain. American Women Lose at Negotiation – Why Does that Happen?