But these methods create tensions and those tensions break out in new problems, requiring new driving forces. Performance tends to slip, particularly as the organization becomes fatigued and cynical. Management by drives will lead to management by crises. Much energy is spent internally on effort that does not serve the customer, contribute to quality, or build long-term relationships. Long-term relationships are developed upon natural laws and proven principles.
Women have the edge over men in cultivating long-term relationships.
Women have a higher sense of the importance of long-term relationships. Men tend to have a management mindset, and management focuses primarily on control, efficiency, and on turning people into things. An article in Scientific American Journal confirmed that in the female brain, the nerve center between the left and the right brain is about twice the size that it is in men, enabling more instantaneous nerve communication and information passage between the left and the right side. Of course, we need to have a complementary capacity of both left and right brains, either within us or within our management team. One consequence is that they never get deep buy-in to a common set of principles that enable people to supervise, direct, control, and govern themselves.