Complete Leadership

‘It’s tough being a female executive in a man’s

world’

Women at, or heading for, the top in business face all the challenges

of men and more. It would take another book to explore these in

full, and some have been written that explore women’s role and

contribution to management.

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Here we focus on two aspects.

The first is the higher expectations women have of themselves (and

that others sometimes have of women). Relinquishing the ‘leader

must not have faults’ myth is a necessary step for all leaders, but for

a woman – always fearing the snide comments that are likely to

accompany any business failure with which she is associated – it is

especially difficult. ...