And sometimes … in all fairness I must admit this … Testosterone gets it right. We’ve all heard the following two phrases many times. It’s not personal. It’s just business. You may not want to believe it but it’s true. Take some time to think about it before dismissing it. For our testosterone peers, business is a game … a game that they have come to compete in and to win. Men build teams. A winning team will add dollars to the bottom line of the corporate coffers. A losing team doesn’t last long.
A good manager will evaluate the weak links, make changes and rebuild a losing team. It’s not personal. It’s business. And here’s where those of us that are testosterone challenged sometimes stray: Men build teams, women build relationships.
Relationships are not conducive to building a strong team. Relationships are not conducive to competition. Relationships are not conducive to setting the bar high and weeding out those who can’t cut it. Relationships should be reserved for customers, business partners, significant others and family. I am always amazed when I come across another woman in the corporate world who sees herself more as a mother lioness than as a competitor.
A mother lioness is not hard to pick out. Business is built upon change. A good business is flexible and always changing. A mother lioness doesn’t handle change well. She has invested her time, energy and emotions in building a family and a corporate restructuring means that some part of or even all of that family is likely to be reassigned. The teeth and claws begin to show.
A mother lioness will not be a team player. She will be a team disrupter. It takes long periods of time for her to overcome the loss of what she has built and be fully functional again. She will jeopardize her reputation, her credibility, and the new team she has become a part of because of her disruptive and uncooperative behavior. She is not capable of moving beyond the change and starting the game again.
So what other traits of a mother lioness can be deadly ... by that I mean deadly to her career ??? stay tuned
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