Women in Leadership : Neelam Manwani

By Vineet Nayar
November 12, 2010 at 6:53am

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I’ve often wondered about the book ‘Nice girls don’t make the corner office’ by Dr Lois P Frankel. The author cautions women that their careers could get sabotaged by “girlish behaviour” learned in childhood, such as working non-stop without a break, worrying about offending others, backing down too easily, explaining too much when asked for information or “polling” friends and colleagues before making a decision…

What we all can learn from top women leaders

By HCI
September 9, 2010 at 10:51am

by Joy Kosta

Three decades ago I took a mini-survey on managerial style in Cosmopolitan magazine (which I read back in my 20’s) that said my managerial style at the time was more “male” than “female”-- not surprising, I remembered thinking, because the leader “role models” I worked with were male. Times have changed; with major shifts in workforce demographics, for the first time women make up the majority of the US workforce. And while women head up fewer than 3% of the Fortune 1,000 compan

Want More Women to Succeed? Let Them Fail

By Joanna Barsh
June 23, 2010 at 11:48am

The stats are just awful: while women account for more than half the college graduates and more than half the PhDs, we make up less than 20% of top management in almost every industry you look at. Now draw a circle and estimate three percent of it. That is the percentage of CEOs who were women in 2008. (Continued below...)