Leadership Needs - Building Gender Balanced Business

In five of eight key areas for leadership, including strategic drive, innovation and risk-taking, women outperformed men in data collected for the study Female Leadership in Australia. Its profiling methods — ranked by, among others, corporate officials from businesses local and international, large to small — found that women have the qualities to be “more confident, competitive, visionary and have a stronger presence” than men.

Herald Sun 20/05/08, Research shows women have better leadership skills
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Dissecting gender differences

The anthropologist Helen Fisher has some uncomfortable insights into how men and women differ, but this self-declared non-feminist has a long list of ways that the “web thinking” of women can complement the “step thinking” of men to the benefit of companies and their leadership.

BBC news 26/01/08, why companies need female managers
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