On one hand you are female and biology has blessed you with unnecessary
emotions, extreme passions, a kind heart and a tendency to be more subjective than objective (most times)
On the other hand you are a leader, and social science
demands you to be objective, steadfast, not one who gets easily excited and a
person who can make right decisions regardless of whose ox is gored (yours
included). A person in charge of others and situation
How do you blend being a woman and a leader in a corporate
organization? You don’t. You are either a woman or a leader. You can’t be both
at the same time. That’s if you want to keep your sanity.
You cannot be a friend and an effective leader at the same
time, you cannot be a mother to those you are in charge of and be in charge at
the same time. You cannot aim to please everybody but still lead rightly at the
same time. You cannot be reactive like a woman tends to be, instead you have to be proactive. You have to be flexible even when your will wants you to remain rigid on that subject. You need to be consistent even when your hormones are running here and there... you need to act like a man even as you think like a woman.
Being a successful female leader entails leaving the woman
part of you at home, get the job done and go back home to her. You just can’t
be effective being both a woman and a Leader at the same time. I don't think nature meant it so...
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Nutty Jay.
