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Women, Men and Newsroom Leadership

Women, Men and Newsroom Leadership - Part 3

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By API Staff
June 13, 2005 02:06 PM

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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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