John Gerzema

How Women (And the
Men Who Think Like them)
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PSFK: Why Women Make Better Business Leaders

In anticipation of the PSFK 2014 conference in a couple of weeks, I participated in an interview about the leadership qualities that are valued in modern business, the media, and the political landscape alike. What inspired you to write the Athena Doctrine? My reasoning for writing the book was twofold. The...

Huffington Post: IWD 2014: Building Your Career Capital

The first National Women’s Day was observed in the United States on February 28, 1909 to honor the garment workers’ strike, which had protested unsatisfactory working conditions in factories. As of almost forty years ago in 1975, the United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on March...

Huffington Post: Overcoming Unconscious Biases Against Female Bosses

"I went on Yahoo and asked, 'What's the poorest country in Asia?'...I saw the photos of Bangladesh and thought, 'Oh my God.' The next thing I thought was, 'I should go there.'" - Eriko Yamaguchi, Founder, Motherhouse As I was speaking on a panel last week at The United Nations...

Huffington Post: Women on Boards: Beyond Gender to Leadership

Last week, Catalyst released its yearly rundown of women in the Fortune 500. And it's more of the same: The percentage of women directors in the Fortune 500 has hovered consistently between 16% and 17% since 2011, despite the lively cultural debate about the importance of women in leadership positions. Similarly,...

Travel Weekly: Kindness, Empathy, Transparency: The New Must-Have Attributes of Leaders

Empathy

By Diane Merlino If you are a business leader, you should know that your customers and your employees very likely want you to be more selfless, more empathetic, and more collaborative. A two-year survey of 64,000 people in 18 countries and 125 on-the-ground interviews in 13 countries confirms that the command...

Travel Weekly: In Business, Why Men Need to Behave More Like Women

By Diane Merlino Try these ideas about leadership on for size: Empathy is innovation. Vulnerability is strength. They might sound a bit airy, but the extraordinary research that’s the foundation of the recently released The Athena Doctrine. How women (and the men who think like them) will rule the future (...

Trust Across America: Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business 2014

I'm very humbled to be named to the "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business 2014" list. A big congratulations to my fellow honnorees who were culled from nominations worldwide from both the public and private sector and in professions ranging from authors to consultants to researchers to...

Forbes: 11 Reasons 2014 Will Be A Break-Out Year For Women Entrepreneurs

It’s a new year. And with the onset of 2014 comes renewed resolve and myriad forecasts of trends to come. One of which, the ascendency of women in business and the premium placed on female leadership traits and competencies, does not seem to be a passing fad of 2013. In fact, a recent Forbes article enumerated...

Leading Deeply: The Toigo Groundbreakers Summit for Women in Leadership

It may sound easier said than done to maintain a strong sense of self when making allegations of sexual harassment against a U.S. Supreme court nominee; or being the sole dissenting vote in a corporate board decision dictating the fate of a Fortune 500 company. But Anita Hill and Monica Lozano make it look like just...

WiredUK: 'Embracing failure' isn't the right way to succeed

A popular meme of modern business is "learning from failure". Failing (which has been around as long as succeeding) is suddenly in vogue. Business schools teach it and corporate leaders preach it. "LFF" is very SEO, with over two million hits on Google. Failure's mojo lies in its ubiquity....