{"id":85015,"date":"2022-04-05T21:54:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowomen.com\/?p=85015"},"modified":"2022-04-05T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T20:21:16","slug":"redefining-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowomen.com\/de\/redefining-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I think women should be the ones redefining leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”85″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why I think women should be the ones redefining leadership<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sara – October 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why women? We get asked this a lot at\u00a0CoWomen, and I have many answers. To discuss this topic, it\u2019s necessary to generalize. So, just to be clear: We\u2019re all individuals, and men can be feminine and feminists,\u00a0and women aren\u2019t\u00a0feminine\u00a0or feminists just based on the fact they\u2019re women. However, a new rise of feminism in the West is showing that there are still many issues for women to tackle. But, getting back to the initial question: why do we at\u00a0CoWomen\u00a0focus on supporting women? One reason that has continued to occupy my thoughts for weeks now is that we need to have more women working in jobs with higher managing responsibilities, but – and this is important – we need them there for the right reasons.\u00a0Fairness is an issue connected to it, but it is not the most pressing neither the most interesting issue to me. Having more women in decision-making is about much more than fairness.<\/p>\n

Tarana\u00a0Burke\u00a0during\u00a0her\u00a0opening\u00a0key note at\u00a0the\u00a0Bits&Pretzles\u00a0Founders Festival<\/a>\u00a0in Munich\u00a0this year\u00a0said\u00a0that\u00a0while\u00a0companies often understand\u00a0they need more diversity\u00a0in\u00a0their teams,\u00a0they often don\u2019t\u00a0understand\u00a0for what reasons they should invest in it\u00a0aside from\u00a0equal numbers and maybe some higher productivity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My answer: It\u2019s about PURPOSE. I\u2019m becoming more and more confident that there should be more women in positions where decisions are made because they think differently. Over the past weeks, I\u2019ve been to so many inspiring events, conferences, and places where it has become clear to me that women don\u2019t just fight for their own equality in fields they\u2019re a minority in – women fight for more. A friend forwarded this interesting article by\u00a0Jessica Tillyer for Fast Company<\/a>\u00a0to me, stating why women can be better designers. She names ten behavioral shifts that underlie the decision-making process of female founders and designers. These values enable them to not just think of better solutions for women, but better solutions\u00a0for everyone:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From a focus on few to the inclusion of many<\/i>
\n<\/span>From focusing on functionality to embracing beauty<\/i>
\n<\/span>From self-protection to vulnerability<\/i>
\n<\/span>From top-down dictation to all-around collaboration<\/i>
\n<\/span>From reliance on reason to consideration of intuition<\/i>
\n<\/span>From designing for profits to designing for purpose<\/i>
\n<\/span>From taking credit to amplifying voices<\/i>
\n<\/span>From rigidity to adaptability<\/i>
\n<\/span>From protection of status to advocacy for others<\/i>
\n<\/span>From acting with fear to leading with love<\/i><\/p>\n

As she says:\u00a0\u201cThese 10 shifts will enable the next generation to be, not just design leaders, but designers of leadership.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Among those ten shifts, I see a lot of intersection with how we\u2019ve been designing the\u00a0CoWomen\u00a0space and the community around it. But this is just a small example. These shifts should also play a much bigger role in designing our job market, our products, and our quality of life. We see similar arguments also in the dynamics of rethinking classic leadership. New work developments expect leadership to be more than just expertise and experience.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0workshop<\/a>\u00a0with Nora Dietrich at\u00a0CoWomen\u00a0last week, we discussed, that leaders are more and more expected to be emotionally intelligent\u00a0and\u00a0empathetic. They are asked to act as strong individuals within a company and take\u00a0on own perspectives instead of being micromanaged from a higher level.\u00a0All of this is necessary in time of great uncertainty and complexity. Leaders of the future need to make a lot of decisions that are not based on existing data. They need empathy, adaptability, and intuition.\u00a0These are traits classically attributed to women, but it\u2019s by having more female leaders that they can become something men and women alike strive for \u2013 creating a better future of work for everyone.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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