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

The Lighthouse

For a few decades now, our corporate world has done a lot of wonderful things in the area of gender roles, but we are also stuck in many ways. We’ve avoided dealing with the lighthouse of gender biology—we’ve been afraid of it—and so we’ve been navigating without its light. In today’s corporate world, power, leadership, control of assets—all are in flux, and economic pressures, globalization, media, the Internet are all affected by gender, even when we don’t realize it. We need to be gender intelligent, even a little bit revolutionary! We need to move beyond both the traditionalist and feminist frameworks and look at the light that human nature itself is providing to all of us, now more than ever before: that light that can ...