Leadership and the Sexes E-Book

Michael Gurian

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: J-B US non-Franchise Leadership
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 364

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Beschreibung

Michael Gurian's trademark use of brain science in gender studies together with real life examples of what is currently happening in business leadership make this an important resource for businesses and organizations. It provides new vision and useful practical applications, helping women and men in the workplace become more effective and fulfilled, and ultimately helping businesses and business leaders realize increased profits. Through examples and case studies from companies like Kodak, Nike, Nintendo, Home Depot, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, and Disney, the book shows readers how ignoring gender diversity actually impedes the true potential of any business.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Praise

ALSO BY THE AUTHORS

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Michael Gurian

Barbara Annis

A Gender Partnership

Science-Based Leadership

Gender Evolution

PART 1 - The Theory

Chapter 1 - Understanding the Science of Gender

Getting to Know the Gender/Brain Spectrum

Equal but Different Intelligence

Burning Question: Are There Exceptions to the Gender Rules?

Empowering Yourself and Your Corporation by Joining the Scientific Process

The Lighthouse

Summary

Chapter 2 - Understanding How the Male and Female Brain Work Differently

Three Primary Areas of Brain Difference

Burning Question: Do Women Have to Become Men to Get Ahead?

Moving Forward

Summary

Chapter 3 - Understanding How Men and Women Lead Differently

Manifestations of Brain Differences in Leadership

A Core Leadership Difference: Approaches to Being in Charge

Balanced Leadership

Leading Differently: The Success Story of Pam Gomez Gil

Transforming Your Team

A Pause for Breath

Moving to Part Two

Summary

PART 2 - The Tools

Chapter 4 - GenderTool I

About Our Gender Tools

The Science of Gender and Negotiation

What Executives Have Said About Gender and Negotiation

Applying Balanced Leadership to Negotiations

Chapter 5 - GenderTool 2

Improving Your Meetings: Using Ten Essential Gender-Balanced Management Skills

Chapter 6 - GenderTool 3

Focusing on Verbal Communication

Burning Question: How Much Do You Have to Change Your Communication Style?

Focusing on Nonverbal Communication

Communication Differences in Sales

Chapter 7 - GenderTool 4

Focusing on Conflict

PART 3 - The Applications

Chapter 8 - Helping Women

Success Stories: How Gender-Balanced Leadership Improves the Bottom Line

What Women Want? No, What Women Need!

Confronting Obstacles to Meeting Women’s Needs

The Quiet Evolution

Summary

Chapter 9 - Helping Men

Clarifying and Maximizing Men’s Strengths

Understanding Issues Men Face in Leadership

Men’s Issues (What Men Need)

Men Need Work/Life Balance

For Women: Tips for Supervising Men

Bringing It All Together: A Final GenderTool

Summary

Chapter 10 - GenderTool 5

The Importance of Mentoring and Coaching in Gender Science

GenderTool 5: Focusing on Mentoring and Coaching

For Mentors: A Checklist

Mentoring Women

For Men: Tips for Supervising Women

Mentoring Men

Make Mentoring a Part of Your Corporation’s Infrastructure

Mentoring for the New Millennium

EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE OF GENDER

NOTES AND RESOURCES

APPENDIX: GENDER/BRAIN SPECTRUM SURVEYS FOR MEN AND WOMEN

THE AUTHORS

INDEX

More Praise forLeadership and the Sexes

“Leadership and the Sexes is research-based and very reader-friendly, a Gender Development Kit that can be used by corporations to improve gender dynamics. Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis provide a scientific approach that breaks down traditional barriers and enables management to implement gender-based leadership rationally. This is an exciting book!”

—Dave Roth, former vice president of engineering, Packet Engines and Vivato Systems

“Leadership and the Sexes is a great book! Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis have captured the insights and science that explain so much about our gender differences. Their book is a priceless contribution to the business world as we learn how best to capitalize on the strengths of both sexes. It offers compelling scientific reasons for bringing us all to the table in equal, unique, and shared roles. I thank the authors for making sense out of a topic that others often cloud with political correctness. This book is right on target.”

—Flip Flippen, president, the Flippen Group; bestselling author, The Flip Side

“Leadership and the Sexes is an important work and Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis are perfect to write it. Filled with practical, accessible information, this is a book that all of us need to read, whether we deal with men and women at work or (with those who lead) in our communities or families.”

—Daniel Amen, M.D., neuropsychiatrist, the Amen Clinics; bestselling author, Sex on the Brain

“Leadership and the Sexes is one of the most comprehensive and powerful books ever written about how to harness the strengths, insights, and wisdom of women and men at work. A delightful, energetic, and important read, not only for this year, for this decade.”

—Judith E. Glaser, CEO, Benchmark Communications, Inc.; author, The DNA of Leadership

“Much of what we have learned thus far about marketing to and leading men and women is based on observing cultural influences. Leadership and the Sexes brings a scientific basis that simply takes everyone’s understanding to a whole new level. The opportunity this understanding brings to be more effective is a competitive advantage both in and outside our company.”

—Jim Weber, president and CEO, Brooks Sports

“Leadership and the Sexes is extremely valuable in two ways. Not only can everyone recognize something of themselves in it, but its numerous engaging examples of communication between women and men will help people interpret communication in the workplace more effectively. An additional bonus is that the authors provide the reader with recent research findings from neuroscience about brain differences between sexes, which may underlie some of the behavioral differences.”

—Sandra F. Witelson, Ph.D., professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine; Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University

“This book offers such powerful insights into the daunting and often complex task of building gender intelligence inside an organization. I am sure it will be required reading for any business that is striving for a competitive advantage.”

—Debbie McGrath, CEO, HR.Com

ALSO BY THE AUTHORS

Michael Gurian

BUSINESS/CORPORATE

The Leading Partners Workbook (with Katherine Coles and Kathy Stevens)

PSYCHOLOGY

What Could He Be Thinking?Love’s JourneyMothers, Sons and LoversThe Prince and the King

EDUCATION

The Minds of Boys (with Kathy Stevens) Boys and Girls Learn Differently! (with Patricia Henley and Terry Trueman) The Boys and Girls Learn Differently Action Guide for Teachers(with Arlette C. Ballew) Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls: Elementary Level(with Kathy Stevens and Kelley King) Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls: Secondary Level(with Kathy Stevens and Kelley King)

PARENTING

Nurture the NatureThe Wonder of Children (previously published as The Soul of the Child) The Wonder of GirlsThe Wonder of BoysA Fine Young ManThe Good SonWhat Stories Does My Son Need? (with Terry Trueman)

Barbara Annis

Same Words, Different Language

Copyright © 2008 by Michael Gurian. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gurian, Michael.

Leadership and the sexes : using gender science to create success in business / Michael Gurian, Barbara Annis.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7879-9703-8 (cloth)

1. Leadership—Sex differences. 2. Management—Sex differences. I. Annis, Barbara, 1954- II. Title.

HD57.7.G87 2008

658.4’092—dc22

2008009376

HB Printing

For my wife, Gail, and my daughters, Gabrielle and Davita

—Michael

For my husband, Paul, daughters, Lauren and Sasha, sons, Stephane and Christian, and stepsons, Zachary, Kelly, and Jeremy

—Barbara

Balance: state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, assets; an adjustment of accounts.

—AMERICAN COLLEGE DICTIONARY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Like any product or business, a collaborative book of this kind is the work not only of its authors but also of many others who provide research, wisdom, and experience. No product happens without process, and no process without lots of help along the way.

Because this book grows mainly from material in the Gurian Institute’s corporate gender training programs, it is crucial to begin by thanking Kathy Stevens, executive director of the Gurian Institute, for her organizational acumen; Pam Gomez Gil, a former manager at various major corporations—including Digital, Compaq, and Hewlett Packard—for her insights on women’s leadership styles; and Katherine Coles, CEO of Mad Marketeer, and former VP of Marketing for Women in Technology International, who helped with research and development of the Gurian Institute training manuals. Many thanks also to Phil Gurian for his web help, Marcia Hilton and Don Stevens for their support, and Candice Fuhrman, who has shepherded this book through the publishing process.

These individuals are just a few of the thousands of men and women who have participated in the work of developing gender intelligence, and thus ensured that it makes a lasting difference in the lives of individuals and corporations all over the world. They, like us, could not succeed unless executives and corporations used this work and training in their corporations.

The following are just some of the executives and corporations we wish to thank for their confidence in gender work: Shahla Aly, Microsoft; Jan Babiak, Ernst & Young; Subha Barry, Merrill Lynch; Clare Beckton, the U.S. federal government; Lynda Bowles, Mike Cook, Sean McConkey, Bev Simonson, and Yezdi Pavri, Deloitte & Touche; Charlie Coffey, RBC; Tony Comper, BMO; Maria Ferris, Susan Turner, and Bill Etherington (retired), IBM; Bob Haase, Theresa Fay-Bustillos, and John Anderson, Levi Strauss; John Hunkin, CIBC Wood Gundy; Chuck Ledsinger, Choice Hotels; Dennis Nally, Jennifer Allyn, Mary Beth Backoff, Kathy Nieland, and John Maxwell, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Mark Willis, Angela Anderson, Smith Barney Citigroup; Holly Taylor Sargent, Harvard University; and Bill Swanson, Raytheon.

The practical wisdom that emerges from the gender intelligence research in corporations, and the emerging teaching tools in this book, are immediately applicable to your team and workplace because corporations have field-tested gender innovations, with strong outcomes and success data. Among the trainers and associates who have facilitated gender intelligence work into corporations are Leslie Abdela, Lee Brower, Roxanne Cason, Dr. David Creelman, Judy Dahm, Judith Glasier, Peter Hagen, Christie Harwicke, Avril Henry, Lisa Hirsh, Philip Hoyt, Irene Hughes, Benedikte Jacobs, Mike Jay, Marty Kaplan, Akiyama Kenchiro, Dick Kimball, Mary Ellen Koroscil, George Labovitz, Stan Labovitz, Shannon Malolepszy, Tim Maroney, Marguerite McLeod, Dr. Keith Merron, Hubert Saint-Onge, Eiko Saito, Dr. Janet Smith, Bill Stevens, Julie Tereshchuk, Marion Tripp, Greg Van Asperen, and Jim Ward. Our thanks to you all for your hard work.

As you read this book, you’ll note that it is science-based. Everything you read is connected to aspects of the human brain that have been researched by neuroscientists around the world. We profoundly thank the scientists who not only accomplish lab research in brain-based gender differences but also provide clinical advice and review. They help us remain at the leading edge of research and application. Particular thanks are due Ruben Gur, Ph.D.; Sandra Witelson, Ph.D.; Marianne Legato, M.D.; Helen Fisher, Ph.D.; Daniel Amen, M.D.; Linda Babcock, Ph.D., Lloyd Halpern, M.D.; Tracey Shors, Ph.D.; Judith Kleinfeld, Ph.D.; George Kohlrieser, Ph.D.; and Andrew Razhegi, Ph.D.

Finally, the authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the Jossey-Bass/ John Wiley publishing team. This group of women and men stands at the forefront of gender work. Rebecca Browning, Carolyn Carlstroem, Gayle Mak, Amy Packard, Susan Williams, Alan Rinzler, Byron Schneider, Mark Karmendy, Kristi Hein, Lori Ames, and many others are immensely creative people who know that if an idea can’t be proven by practice in corporations themselves, it is generally worthless to business. We thank the whole publishing team for helping prove the ideas of this book in the corporate world and for helping us make these insights and tools public.

INTRODUCTION:

HOW GENDER INTELLIGENCE LEADS TO BALANCED, AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP

There are differences between men and women.... We can’t ignore a million years of history—at the office or in the living room.

—SHARON PATRICK, COFOUNDER AND FORMER CEO, MARTHA STEWART LIVING OMNIMEDIA

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION of information on male/ female brain differences in every aspect of your corporate life, from workplace comfort to competitive edge to corporate bottom line. The book helps you answer seven questions that we, Michael and Barbara, have helped numerous leaders answer:

• Do I know enough about differences in men and women that are inherent in the human brain and thus will always be with us?

• Does my team understand the science of male/female brain difference to its maximum advantage?

• Is my company as a whole harnessing the innate and natural power of both male and female leaders?