Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business

Moving Forward

As your team looks more deeply at “Where do we go with brain differences in our corporation?” you’ll be unconsciously and consciously looking at how to balance testosterone and oxytocin, gray matter and white matter, process and product, inclusion and exclusion. Indeed, you’ll be looking at the most important issues human beings face in any sector of life. Work life is human life.

Balanced leadership for women and men begins to clarify itself through this focus. As you leave this chapter, it is important, if you are a man, that you develop a greater sense of care for women’s difference in hierarchy development—look more carefully at the exact capabilities a woman brings, without telling her she can’t be respected until she ...