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Women, Men and Newsroom Leadership - Part 4

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Published: Monday, June 13, 2005


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SECTION IV

  • POWER
  • WIN-WIN, WIN-LOSE

 

Key Points:

  • For men, power is status; they are more interested in the perks and emblems of success.
  • Men live in a world of winners and losers; their jockeying for rank is associated with the hormone testosterone.
  • For women, power is connections.
  • Women need consensus and harmony; they swap information freely and are more careful to attribute ideas.
  • Women have a harder time working with people they don’t like; men just want to “play the game.”

 

Questions:

  • How do the different views of power play out in the newsroom?
  • Remembering these are generalities that don’t fit each person equally, where do you fit?
  • What problems and opportunities can these two views of power produce?
  • How good are people at attributing ideas to another?

 

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