Advice to Women Managers by Kathy Keeton 1. Those women who do never really make it much further than middle management. It makes men feel uncomfortable seeing a woman behaving in what, to them, is an unnatural way. Act like a woman. Men and women are very biologically different and we both have strengths and complement each other.
Women are good at integrating things.
After all, that's our function in the family. We harmonize and when things are in harmony and people are getting along, then progress can be made. Give employees guidelines about what you expect and let them figure out their own way of getting there. I think giving people freedom to be creative and to express their abilities, within the objective of the organization and parameters of what you expect to get done, is the best way to get the best work from them. If you don't know how to use a computer, you're looking for trouble.