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Book SynopsisWhat if your company could gain a greater profit share of the market simply by promoting more women into its senior management team? Sounds like a no-brainer, and despite nearly every study done in the past three decades proving companies with women leaders deliver superior performance, the number of women in the C-suites of companies all over the world is noticeably low.Results at the Topis written for the men who know the value female leaders bring to the table and need a tangible way to get them there. Whether you're building your leadership team from scratch or trying to transform long-established norms for a competitive advantage today, the practical guidance inside wastes no space with blame for the current state of women leaders and goes straight to the immediate steps organizations can take to change it. It gives you everything you need to both create the internal systems for promoting gender diversity on every step of the career ladder and motivating employees to celebrate
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 Your Wake-Up Call 1
Diversity at the Top: Correlates with Better Performance, 1
How We Came Together, 3
Barbara’s Wake-Up Call, 4
When I Became a Real Manager of People, 6
The Diversity Money Pit, 7
What Makes the Difference, 9
Brushing Your Horse, 10
Lack of “Gender Success” Is Costly, 11
This Is Your Toolkit, 11
Endnotes, 12
Chapter 2 The Business Case for the Advancement of Women 15
“Let’s Do It!”, 16
Defining Superior Performance, 17
Adding Women to Boards, 18
The Reason for the Improvement in Financial Performance, 20
The Future of Leadership, 20
“Values Don’t Matter If We’re Not Making the Numbers”, 21
Endnotes, 31
Chapter 3 Ascent of Neuroscience 35
Equal Does Not Mean the Same!, 36
The Ascent of Neuroscience, 36
The Domino Effect, 36
Bell Curve of Gender Tendencies, 37
The Ability to Peer More Deeply, 38
Sex Differences in Brain Structure and Function, 40
Sex Differences in Hormonal Composition, 44
The Breakthrough That Knowledge Brings, 45
Endnotes, 46
Chapter 4 Ascent of Women 49
The First Long Step, 50
Women Joining Business Clubs, 51
Cultures Clinging to Tradition, 52
The Ascent of Women, 52
An Economic Necessity Versus a Choice, 58
Areas Where Glass Ceilings Still Exist, 59
Endnotes, 66
Chapter 5 Ascent of Men 71
Men Accelerating Change, 71
The Evolution of an Attitude, 75
Evolution in Our Thinking, 80
Are We Stalled or Advancing?, 81
The “Aha” Moment, 83
Breaking the Mold, 84
Endnotes, 87
Chapter 6 Millennials: Facts and Fictions 89
It’s Not a Generational Issue, 89
How Much the Same We Really Are, 96
Why Women Are Needed in the Tech Industry, 97
It’s Not a Generational Issue, 99
Endnotes, 100
Chapter 7 What Works and What Doesn’t 101
We’re over the Tipping Point, 103
How to Create Sustainable Change, 104
What Works and Why, 105
What Doesn’t Work and Why, 108
Other Best Practices, 112
Critical Mass and Critical Mindset, 114
Endnotes, 114
Chapter 8 The Role of the Board 117
Lack of Mentoring, 118
Stereotypes in Business, 118
Richard’s Story: Boards in the 2008 Financial Crisis
and Their Gender Composition, 119
The Quota Experience in Norway, 121
Picking the Best Candidate Remains Vital to Success, 122
It May All Start with the Board of Directors, 123
Humans Follow Role Models, 126
Role Models Are Leaders, 126
Women’s Participation in Management and on Boards, 129
Men’s Beliefs and Behaviors Are Changing…Slowly, 130
Endnotes, 131
Chapter 9 Measuring Commitment 133
A General Model for Gender Diversity in Management
Information Systems (MIS), 134
Defining a Model for Gender Diversity, 135
Gender Diversity Model for Management Information
System (MIS), 138
Constructing a New Gender Propensity Index©, 142
What Happens Next?, 143
Endnotes, 144
Chapter 10 How to Rid the Plumbing of Bias 145
Gender Parity in New Graduates, 146
Sourcing, Job Descriptions, and Interviewing, 146
Nine Levers for Creating Gender-Intelligent
Organizations, 150
Areas Where Systemic Biases May Form, 152
Just Go in There, 153
Having a Hard Time Getting Women to Join, 154
You’re Creating a Lose-Lose Scenario, 154
Fixing the Plumbing, 155
Endnotes, 156
Chapter 11 What the Future Holds 157
How Engaging Are Your Engagement Surveys?, 157
Brushing the Engagement Survey Horse, 159
“Are We Being Gender Intelligent about This?”, 159
Challenging Tradition, 160
Feminine Values in Financial Services, 161
Why Does Gender Success Elude So Many Businesses?, 162
What If We Do Not Act?, 163
Steps to Gender Success, 165
The Long Ascent, 167
Endnotes, 168
Index 171
