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Women in business

By definition success is a good, positive result, an individual accomplishment


somewhere along our lives. Successful people, billionaires in other words, can't say
they have secrets or a hidden plan by which they gain their success. Being successful
doesn't mean following a certain recipe, or having certain special traits, qualities,
abilities or an appropriate attitude, but having the optimal package with all these,
combined, customized by the need of reaching a certain goal. Nobody is born with all
these qualities, they cultivate in time, by personal and professional development or
coaching, considering the objectives, values ,vocation and personality first.
Women and business have always been viewed as polar opposites in our society.
Women are seen as soft and beautiful, unlike the brutality found in high levels of the
business world. By nature, most of them have a natural tendency to kindness and a
level of emotion, and in the world of business, these traits are considered soft and
undesirable.
Sheryl Kara Sandberg is the first woman to be on Facebooks Board of Directors.
The COO( Chief Operating Officer) of Facebook, Sheryl was listed among the 50 "Most
Powerful Women in Business" by Fortune Magazine. At first, Sheryl was appointed, for
an impressive period of nearly 7 years, Vice President, Global Online Sales and
Operations, Google Inc. Her book named Lean in talks about issues they face as
women striving to achieve in the work place. Sheryl Sandberg gives women 3 advise
about what are the messages women need to tell themselves and the other ones like
them.
1. Sit at the table. No one gets to the corner office by sitting on the side not by the
table and no one gets the promotion if they dont think they deserve that. Women
systematically underestimate their own abilities. Women do not negotiate for
themselves in the work force and studies in the last 2 years show that 57% of men are
negotiating for salary and only 7% of women do it. And most important, men attribute
their success to themselves, but women attribute to other factors. If you ask women why
they did a good job they would say someone helped them, they were lucky, they worked
really hard

2. Make your partner a real partner. If a woman and a man work full time and
have a child, the woman does twice the amount of housework the man does and three
times the amount of child care than the man does. So shes got 2 jobs or 3 jobs and
hes got 1. There is a lack of equality in this situation.
3. Dont leave before you leave. Dont make decisions too far in advance. I think
there is a really deep irony to the fact that what women do with the objective of staying
in the work force, actually lead to their eventually leaving. When a woman starts thinking
about having a child, she starts thinking about making room for all that. And literally
from that moment she doesnt raise her hand anymore. She doesnt look for a
promotion, she doesnt take on the new project, she doesnt say she wants to do this or
that. The thing is she starts thinking about this kind of things way too early.
Some people might say that women are not self-promoters and often allow emotion
to intervene where black-and-white decisions should be made. But I believe that
emotional intelligence is the key to improve and transform leadership. What most of
bosses, colleagues or mentors dont remark about women is their other natural
tendencies: their aggressive nature, unmatched level of perseverance, supreme loyalty,
natural multi-scenario thinking and superior multi-tasking skills. Most high functioning
women can have two to three possible solutions for a problem and be ready to
strategize it right away.
In my opinion, the problem is people have no clue women have these skills because
we are grown up in a world where most of the top jobs are held by men. In the end,
most high level professionals (men and women alike) are looking for the best person to
do the job, not just the best man.

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