Women, Men and Newsroom Leadership - Part 3

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SECTION III

• HANDLING AMBIGUITY
• LONG-TERM PLANNING
• NURTURING

Key Points:

• Women are uniquely built to cope with ambiguity.
• Women’s aptitude for long-term planning and nurturing evolved from child-rearing.
• Women’s nurturing is associated with the hormone estrogen.
• Women excel at reading nuances of body language.

Questions:

• Dr. Fisher speaks of women’s “executive social skills.” What is your reaction to that? (These skills might include coaching, mentoring, networking, bouncing ideas off of colleagues … )
• Have these social skills become more commonplace in recent years?
• What is the value of long-term planning in the quick pace of the newspaper world?
• What is the value of picking up on nuances of posture, gesture, tone of voice?

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