What Women Want? No, What Women Need!

The organizations we’ve featured show how important gender balance can be to corporate success. These companies have come to understand what women need in order to feel a part of the corporation’s leadership, and thus to be retained and advance—and ultimately, to share their gifts, and their methods of success, with the corporation’s bottom line.
Let’s explore what women in these and other companies have said they need in order to feel fulfilled in a corporation and, most important, to apply their talents in the corporation’s leadership. The information you read in this section is based on our study of over two thousand workshops and corporate initiatives over the last twenty years. As we work with a ...

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