Friday, February 20, 2015
Leaders Talk Strategy: Our Top 5 Favorite Quotes
The World Economic Forum currently predicts that it will take another 80 years to achieve true leadership parity between males and females. That's certainly not soon enough for co-founders Gloria Feldt and Amy Litzenberger of the women's non-profit, Take the Lead. The two women started this organization with the mission of "preparing, developing, inspiring and propelling women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025." Take the Lead has been promoting its #25not95 campaign to meet this goal of reaching leadership parity 70 years sooner than predicted. What's not to love about that?
They asked both men and women leaders across all sectors:
What is one thing we can do now that will help us reach leadership parity by 2025?
Here are our top 5 favorite responses:
1. We can involve men. If men
understand the importance of modern leadership skills like humility,
collaboration, empathy, and compassion (as detailed in my book, The Athena
Doctrine), they can see how having more women leaders is a
business imperative.
- JOHN GERZEMA, CHAIRMAN
& CEO, BAV CONSULTING
2. In the United States, we
can pass the Equal Rights Amendment and
elect a woman president; and everywhere, we can give girls and young women
laptops brimming with math and science software. - CAROL JENKINS, WRITER, FOUNDING PRESIDENT of THE WOMEN’S
MEDIA CENTER
3. We can disrupt the status
quo by making women
visible and powerful in media and thereby more visible and powerful
in society.
- JULIE BURTON, PRESIDENT,
THE WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER
4. One thing you can do is
recognize the need for, and value of, voices and experiences that are entirely
different from yours as the way to find true success.
- LEON SILVER, PARTNER, GORDON & REES, LLP
5. We can do what women do
best—collaborate across organizations so that we can reach the critical mass
necessary to change the world.
- AMY LITZENBERGER,
CO-FOUNDER, TAKE THE LEAD
