Blogging on The People Equation has taught me that readers love lists of quotations. Leadership quotes are a particular favorite. And if you bring gender into the equation, you get brisk discussion out of it as well. Just ask my friend and fellow leadership blogger Jesse Lyn Stoner. John Walston, co-founder of the site Resourceful Manager, sent me…
Women in Leadership
Women as Mentors: Squashing the Queen Bee Myth
Do you work for a “Queen Bee?” This label, coined in the 1970’s by researchers at the University of Michigan, describes the phenomenon of a high-ranking female working in a male-dominated industry who does everything she can to thwart the rise of female colleagues. Is the Queen Bee a myth, or does she really exist?…