New Rules for Women Managers

Woman managers need to appreciate that it takes heroic energy to rock the cradle and rock the corporate world.

 First pin a badge for bravery on yourself for attempting it.

 Then, promise you will not even begin to tread the path that leads to the joyless land of being a super-woman or super-mom.

 Enlist your men and families as willing accomplices in the challenging task of reconstructing a corporate workplace that lovingly accommodates the needs of humans, for families, for music, poetry and time for just standing and watching the world go by!

 Be kind to yourself. Love yourself.

 Conquer fear and overcome the need for instructions.

 Pursue the ability to adapt and be a leader of proactive change.

 The New World is not for those who are what Nehru called unwilling victims, dragged to be sacrificed on the altar of change.

 Be leaders to be accepted as such. Banish forever your fear of being centre stage, your reluctance to accept that you are where the buck stops.

 Relearn and re-install the software of the human heart that your mothers embodied.

 The New Woman of the past decade must not forsaken her heritage of loving and caring for the tough hard-bitten so-called ‘male boss model.’

 Both men and women managers need to put the human being at the centre of all business processes.

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