Results from a recent survey provide evidence that women bring distinct personality and motivational strengths to leadership roles - and do so in a style that is more conducive to today's diverse workplace.
When a woman leader, like Dun & Bradstreet Inc. CFO Sara Mathew, talks about her career-defining moments, her success is not what comes to mind first. Instead, she, like other women leaders who participated in a Caliper Corp. survey, says she views her defining moments as those times when she weathered unexpected storms that tested her severely.
In both a written survey and some follow-up interviews, women leaders shared - with enormous candor - details of failures and mistakes they've made, which could have derailed their careers. They also reflected on what they've learned through adversity, and how they carried on with more determination, focus and a clearer understanding of their own strengths
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