Prof @ Harvard Business School; Author of "Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well"
I am so appreciative of this FT article by @nikluac featuring so many of the management thinkers I revere most. https://lnkd.in/esqqxtU8 Rita McGrath Lynda Gratton Avivah Wittenberg-Cox Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic #management #WomenLeaders
The twenty-first century necessitates a change in management thinking and practice from control to enablement. Anyone joining management teams with an open mind on how management should function is a positive. It could be women that do that, it could be someone younger than those already in place. It is about time that we stopped advocating management theory proposed in 1902.
Nice find! Still parts of it make assumptions (or suggest/imply things) that are more than a little bothersome. Like ... - you mean women haven't had a significant impact or changed this already? (Certainly not enough, but not at all?) - also seems to suggest binary (2 dimensional) polar opposites on gender type/behavior (as opposed to acknowledging any fluid, non-binary, or duality). And a few others...
I think leader groups should represent the diversity of the customers and employees for optimum results. In small companies that's of course impossible to the full, but in larger corporations it should be a goal in itself. Women/men, LGBT+, religions, schools, age, geographical and other demographical differences - whenever possible. The different perspectives they bring by being part of a certain group are also qualifications, and in many cases even more important than the grades on your diploma. So yes, women will change management, if there are no women there today. But management should not be only women either, that's as bad as only men...
Such an accurate, thought provoking and inspiring article Amy Edmondson 🇺🇦Thanks🙋♀️
Rita McGrath
2y
A great article Simon Caulkin citing some of my favorite thinkers on the topic! Amy Edmondson 🇺🇦 Avivah Wittenberg-Cox Lynda Gratton
I completely share this thought “…She sees women and gender-balance as the canary in the coal mine for everything else. “I have always thought that the 20th century saw the rise of women, and the 21st century will be about whether men accept that rise or backlash against it,” she says. “And right now, what you see is both.”
Reshma H.
2y
Not if ratio is 1:5 in management boards. It has to be atleast 3:5 in more than 50% of the businesses and industries to achieve significant changes.
Mike Lambert
2y
The answer is yes. They have to.
Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs at University of Virginia Darden School of Business
2yYes!