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The Hard Question: view answers or respond

“Are women not willing to make the sacrifice for executive leadership and walking away?"  

 

 

The prevailing writing around the topic of women in leadership is about the need for organisations to commit to great gender diversity and consciously drive more women into senior leadership roles.

 

Most would argue (as do many women) that the better approach is to base promotion on metirocracy. Many organisations would argue that they currently take this approach.

 

So, maybe there are only small numbers of women in leadership positions…because they don’t want to be there! Perhaps women are opting for better lifestyle and family time. Or preferring to start their own businesses and control their earnings as well as their time (there is some evidence to support this). 

 

What do you think? 

Hit the Ground Leading


You know leadership makes all the difference on project delivery. The most successful projects – both in the eyes of the client and the contractor – are those where the teams have ‘hit the ground running’, with strong vision and leadership from day one. These are the projects where leadership, vision and focus are unwavering throughout the delivery phase of a project.

 

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From the blog: Where have all the women gone?

By Mark Holden


In a media release on May 20, 2003 I made the following statement "Female CEOs needed to avoid more corporate disasters". Business disasters like HIH and Pan Pharmaceuticals could be avoided if more women were running big companies, according to one of Australia's leading executive trainers. 

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