Women’s Career In Men’s Business
It is a popular belief that men and women are start off their careers on an equal footing and have equal chances to succeed. Why then there are not many women occupying high rank positions in government or top management? And those women who managed to advance in their careers see it as a lucky concourse of circumstances or unexpected chance. They tend to explain their success as: “It so happened”. Aren’t women less ambitious than men? Sociologists’ findings suggest otherwise. Women always search for more clever, savvy, successful and creative partner in life that speaks for women’s exceptional demands.
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Before it had been considered that true leaders (especially business ones) never made mistakes. But things have been changed. Leaders are also humans and it is human to err and make mistakes. All big companies have a collection of mistakes to boast of. Here is the vivid example of it. In 1986 General Electric under Jack Welch’s leadership had acquired 80% of Kidder Peabody Company for US$ 600mln. This mistake cost them US$ 1,2 bln.
Benchmarking is a new buzzword in management. Some people are quite wary of this term fearing that industrial espionage may use this word as a cover. In fact, there is a fundamental difference between these two methods. Benchmarking is a management tool for measuring company’s performance which is supposed to be a general knowledge.
Most of us dream of quit working as an employee and set up own business. But it is not that easy to achieve success in own business. There are a set of tips for making your business successful!
