This alone is reason enough to have both men and women in the room to counterbalance each other when crucial business decisions need to be made. Women are often considered weak or indecisive when they include others in the decision making process.
However, research shows that men tend to look for holes or weaknesses in an arguments whereas women continually seek a creative solution—listening for ideas, adjusting their understanding of what is important, and asking for relevant details, according to the Harvard Business Review. Click to Tweet this image! Women often find themselves trapped in a double bind: Take risks and be perceived as careless; or be conservative and labeled ineffective.
Regardless of lingering double-standards, the fact is that diversity in leadership backgrounds translates into fiscal success. Where does your organization struggle when it comes to including the voices of women leaders into the decision-making process, especially in the C Suite?
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. We love to create new opportunities for women who are ready to embrace their leadership. Our top priority is to help you make a lasting impact for yourself and your organization. And I found that sweet spot to jump her from — every time I came to a new fence. What a feeling. I decided to take the hall pass she gave me, to make lots of mistakes, in every corner of my life, this week.
And it has cut my decision-making time a thousand fold. I pretend I am on my thoroughbred Lacey, jumping a brand new fence, and I say yes to some new direction that I have no idea about — with abandon.
There is real raw fun in opinions. Strong directions. Please give me your responses, feedback and comments on this topic, below. How do you handle decisions about opportunities you have no experience with? Do you torture yourself with indecision? Do you run boldly in some unknown direction? Do you doubt yourself into extinction? This week, I offer you a hall pass. Let yourself make dozens of mistakes, proudly.
I bet you will find the sweet spot every time. I look forward to responding to all of your comments! With so much love and pleasure, Mama Gena. Ugh, Indecision. Women tend to become risk-alert under stress and go for the smaller wins that are more guaranteed.
Is one strategy better than the other? It is better to be risk-hungry or risk-alert? You could argue either way, but this provides a new reason to have both men and women at the top level when high-stakes decisions are being made. We need both genders in the room to balance one another out when tensions are running high. What is it, and why does it matter? Huston: I love that phrase. One of the women I interviewed used it to describe what she sees happening in business and law, even in the art world.
She likens the division of decision-making in the professional world to dogsled racing. She believes that women are welcome to make all of the behind-the-scenes decisions in an organization to ensure the team makes it to the starting line. Women can assemble the team, work out disagreements among team members who are nipping at one another, decide who needs more training and who has to pull more weight.
But on race day, when the cameras and spectators show up, she said, it's men who take the reins, not the women who orchestrated everything. We need to stop seeing women as people who merely get the team to the starting line.
We need to start seeing them as leaders on race day. But research shows that women are just as data-driven and analytical as men, if not more so. In a sample of 32 studies that looked at how men and women thought about a problem or made a decision, 12 of the studies found that women adopted an analytical approach more often than men, meaning that women systematically turned to the data, while men were more inclined to go with their gut, hunches, or intuitive reactions. The other 20 studies?
Not a single study, not one, found that women tended to be more intuitive in their decision-making styles. So a strength women bring to decision-making is their analytical perseverance and perspicacity. But as my interviewees often explained, they often started with a hunch and followed up on it with careful research. Probably not.
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