“Confront Their Reluctance”
“We believe women need to confront their reluctance to consider a leadership role and work actively to counter it with a more positive response.” This clarion call is issued by two top leaders in the academic and corporate world. Indira Samarasekera was the first woman president of the University of Alberta, and a director of Magna International, TC Energy, and Stelco. Martha Piper was the first woman president of the University of British Columbia, and a director of the Bank of Montreal, Shoppers Drug Mart, and TransAlta Corporation. Although neither was born in Canada, both are officers of the Order […]
The Big Question
“Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there’s no denying that most of these leaders are men,” reads the provocative blurb on a new book about leadership. Released this month in hardcover by Harvard Business Review Press, the book Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It), Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people–especially competent women–to advance? Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men make up a […]