ACHIEVING DIVERSITY AT SENIOR LEVELS

摘要

As both CEO of a 17-year-old leadership development organization and an experienced executive coach, I'm often brought inside corporations where the leaders are struggling with the challenge of retaining and promoting women at senior leadership levels. Over and over, I'm struck by the way men and women agree that a problem exists, but then disagree so strongly over the cause as well as the solution. In private, the women tell me that they won't ask for a promotion and that they are even reluctant to nominate themselves for high-profile projects. "If they thought I was good enough, they'd ask me," the women insist. "The guys have their own club and I just don't think they want me in it." But their male colleagues express a different frustration. "The women don't know what they want or they don't tell us," the men complain. "They don't try a lot of new things. They don't ask."