Monday, November 02, 2009

Women make better managers


All the male managers I've had have been complete losers. Blokes do devoid of managerial talent they make George Bush seem competent. Maybe I've just been unlucky, I don't know. What I do know is that my female managers have rocked. Well, most of them.

In my career, I've studied hundreds of managers and have arrived at the conclusion that when it comes to motivating and engaging employees, women do it better.

My thoughts have been backed by the Northwestern University in Illinois, which has analysed the results of 45 different leadership studies. They discovered the obvious fact that transformational (people-focused) leadership is far more effective than transactional (task-focused) leadership, but more surprisingly, they found that women significantly outperformed men in transformational prowess.

See full Article.