Technically Women

Social software matters because it allows for quality to surface, modesty to win, and effort to be rewarded… all things that hierarchical processes in organizations often subvert. In hierarchical information flows, position in the hierarchy rather than effort/work quality determines influence and power. This is not to say that all hierarchical organizations do [...]

Dennis Howlett doesn’t fool around. When he wanted an authentic perspective on a McKinsey Quarterly report on women and leadership, he collected a really interesting group of women to comment. I was flattered to be included and fascinated by the group he had assembled. Collectively the perspective presented was also much richer than any one [...]

Forget about what women want – women may want a lot of things that have nothing to do with running a business (oh that cute pink handbag!). But let’s discuss what women tend (and I say tend because nothing is absolute when discussing gender roles) to know and you can start to see why [...]