Beck...
You are a funny woman. Oh, and you're a HOTTIE!!!
The article forgot to mention that most women don't know how to pat themselves on the back.
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HERE's TO ALL THE WOMEN...
by Funchback inhttp://www.bcentral.com/articles/msnfeature/109.asp?lid=3800
why women make better managers .
joanna krotz .
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The Best Way To Get To Know Someone...
by Funchback inaccording to current jw teachings (and it has been this way for many years), the best way to get to know someone is to work with them in field service.. when you were an "active" jw, what did you think about that statement?
how do you feel about it now?.
personally, those words were uttered by someone from the platform recently.
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Here's to outnfree, whose 'n' stands for NUT!!! LOL!
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HERE's TO ALL THE WOMEN...
by Funchback inhttp://www.bcentral.com/articles/msnfeature/109.asp?lid=3800
why women make better managers .
joanna krotz .
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http://www.bcentral.com/articles/msnfeature/109.asp?LID=3800
Why women make better managers
Joanna KrotzBefore getting to the point of this provocative headline, here's a disclaimer: Prepare to consider widely accepted generalizations.
Translated, that means, "Included in this article are some sweeping statements presented as general truths but based on limited or incomplete evidence."
Let me add this: Remember, too, that being equal does not mean being the same. Now, let's proceed.
As women gained traction in the workforce, gender differences among senior and junior staffers turned up in every workplace, from offices to factory floors to fighter planes. Now that women are pulling up chairs at boardroom tables and launching their own companies the number of women-owned firms has increased by 103% in the past 10 years those differences are increasingly playing out in executive suites, too.
Studies show that both male and female styles of leadership can be effective. But when compared side by side, "female" has the edge.
Biology and upbringing
Gender differences stem from nurture and nature alike. It's not only socialization that shapes men and women. It's also biology.
Researchers are discovering physiological variations in the brains of men and women. For example, male brains are about 10% larger than female brains. But women have more nerve cells in certain areas. Women also tend to have a larger corpus collusum the group of nerve fibers that connects left and right hemispheres. That makes women faster at transferring data between the computational, verbal left half and the intuitive, visual right half. Men are usually left-brain oriented.
As girls and boys grow up, of course, they're also molded by differing sets of social rules and expectations. Gender obviously colors behavior, perception and just about everything else.
Gender matters
Typically, when comparing managers, the dialogue is framed as men's command-and-control style versus women's team-building or consensus approach.
"Women managers tend to have more of a desire to build than a desire to win," says Debra Burrell, regional training director of the Mars-Venus Institute in New York. "Women are more willing to explore compromise and to solicit other people's opinions." By contrast, she says, men often think if they ask other people for advice, they'll be perceived as unsure or as a leader who doesn't have answers.
Other female leadership strengths:
- Women are better than men at empowering teams and staff.
- Women encourage openness and are more accessible.
- Women leaders respond more quickly to calls for assistance.
- Women are more tolerant of differences, so they're more skilled at managing diversity.
- Women identify problems more quickly and more accurately.
- Women are better at defining job expectations and providing valuable feedback.
Men tend to be more speedy decision-makers, compared to women. Male managers are also more adept at forming what management psychologist Ken Siegel calls "navigational relationships," or temporary teams set up to achieve short-term goals.
Women are better communicators
Big deal and surprise, surprise, right? So women typically outperform men at communications and interpersonal skills. You're probably thinking: Those are "soft skills," not the hard tools and analysis demanded to grow a business into consistent profitability.
How do such "female" traits translate into better business management?
In today's lean workplace, when employees have multiple jobs and fleeting loyalty, when technology enables even tiny companies to compete in global marketplaces, the ability to make staff feel charged up, valued and individually recognized is a definite competitive edge.
"Some companies succeed while others don't," says Jeffrey Christian, CEO of Christian & Timbers, a well-known Cleveland search firm. "It's not about production, it's about talent. Whoever has the best team wins."
Money is not the primary reason talented people stay on the job or jump. Rather, they stay predominantly because of relationships. "Women get that," says Christian, whose firm placed Carly Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard, among other high-level hires.
Generally, women delegate more readily and express their appreciation for hard work more often. "Women ask questions, men tend to give answers," says author, consultant and career coach Terri Levine. By communicating company goals more readily and expressing appreciation more often, women tend to be better at making staffers feel valued and rewarded. That translates into cost-effective recruiting and being able to operate with stable, loyal employees or, as Christian puts it, the best talent.
But no drop off in "hard skills"
Besides generally being credited with better communications and relationship skills, women are lately demonstrating higher levels of traditional "hard" or "male" skills as well. Some investigators suggest that many women workers had such skills all along, but that male bosses either overlooked or misperceived them. Others think that the cumulative years of experience for women are broadening their skills.
One influential study in 1996, conducted by management consultant Advanced Teamware (which has since merged with Consulting Tools), analyzed a database of 360-degree assessments for more than 6,000 managers. Such assessments include anonymous reviews from a manager's peers, supervisors and subordinates. The study by Michael R. Perrault and Janet K. Irwin looked at a range of managerial behavior, including problem solving, controlling, leading, managing self, managing relationships and communicating.
The results:
- ". . . Previous studies showed that women excelled in interpersonal skills (right brain), not in intellectual skills (left brain). Our study demonstrates that women are considered better performers in both right- and left-brain skill areas."
- "Women received higher evaluations than men in 28 of the 31 individual behaviors, representing 90% of items."
- "The most problematic factor for women is Managing Self . . . The worst rated of the 31 behaviors is Coping with one's own frustrations."
More glass ceilings to break
Obviously, there are still very few women running Fortune 500 companies and, in the corporate VP ranks, roughly three men to every woman. So if women have the managerial edge, how come you don't see more of them in positions of power?
Here's my speculation: Men are used to running the show and, for the most part, don't reward "female" style management because they see it as weak. Women have had to prove that their way of managing works, over and over again. Then, too, women have only gained the independence and skills to ascend in the latter half of the last century. No doubt, their rise will continue.
For owners of small and midsized businesses, being able to keep staffers and stakeholders enthusiastic as you steer the company forward may be the most important factor in building success. "You want to delegate outcomes, not tasks," says Ken Siegel, whose Los Angeles firm, the Impact Group, works with executives to develop leadership. "You must have the ability to let go. Women can do that better than men because their self-esteem is multifaceted," he says. "Men's self-esteem is based on what they do, it's uni-dimensional."
The upshot for chief executives should be to move over to the "female" side of management, whether you're a thoroughgoing left-brainer or a woman manager who may be trying to manage "male." Turns out, girls do it better.
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The Best Way To Get To Know Someone...
by Funchback inaccording to current jw teachings (and it has been this way for many years), the best way to get to know someone is to work with them in field service.. when you were an "active" jw, what did you think about that statement?
how do you feel about it now?.
personally, those words were uttered by someone from the platform recently.
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yucca-
I'm glad that you ultimately ended up being happy! Field Service is a good way to get to know about other peoples' personal issues.
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Do you live inside of my head?
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The Best Way To Get To Know Someone...
by Funchback inaccording to current jw teachings (and it has been this way for many years), the best way to get to know someone is to work with them in field service.. when you were an "active" jw, what did you think about that statement?
how do you feel about it now?.
personally, those words were uttered by someone from the platform recently.
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You are SO right. The Pioneers will tell someone's business in a heartbeat!
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The Best Way To Get To Know Someone...
by Funchback inaccording to current jw teachings (and it has been this way for many years), the best way to get to know someone is to work with them in field service.. when you were an "active" jw, what did you think about that statement?
how do you feel about it now?.
personally, those words were uttered by someone from the platform recently.
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According to current JW teachings (and it has been this way for many years), the BEST way to get to know someone is to work with them in Field Service.
When you were an "active" JW, what did you think about that statement? How do you feel about it now?
Personally, those words were uttered by someone from the platform recently. My feelings about that statement PREVIOUSLY (before I became a JDub doubter) were, really, minimal. I just assumed those words were true. If anything, those words caused me to put more pressure on myself to go out in Field Service more often.
NOW, when I hear those words, I feel like they are wrong. I believe those words are guilt tactics. Sure, you will get to know some things about a particular person if you work with them door-to-door. But there are many more ways to get to know someone BETTER than working with them in Field Service. One way would be to go out to dinner with someone or invite someone over for a Barbeque or have someone come over and watch the game with you or go shopping at a mall with someone or even corresponding with someone using the telephone, pen and paper, e-mail, or "instant messaging". There must be hundreds of ways to get to know someone.
Any thoughts?
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Crackhead JW Commits Murder
by Funchback insad.
so sad.
i guess that maybe she didn't seek help from the elder's because she feared getting df'd.
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Sad. So sad. I guess that maybe she didn't seek help from the elder's because she feared getting DF'd. Any other reason why she would hide this?
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5528733&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6
Slay suspect's husband dumfounded LISA MEYER, Staff Writer September 28, 2002 Darrell Gilchrist sat, hunched at the edge of his worn couch, with a coffee and a daily paper at his feet. He shook his head. Life as he once knew it had just ended.
"I had no idea," said Gilchrist, 41, who learned that his wife, Pamper Petterway, was charged in the killing of Stella Garczynski, an 81-year-old widow whose battered body was found inside her Home Avenue house Wednesday.
"This is real crazy," he said. "I can't believe she was locked up for murder."
Gilchrist slowly lifted a cigarette and took a long drag, as random thoughts raced through his mind.
He recounted the moment he first learned of his wife's alleged responsibility for the heinous crime after police yesterday had searched his Adeline Street home and walked away half an hour later carrying her shoes and clothes.
"When they showed up and asked if I knew Pam, I thought, "Oh, what did she do now?'" said Gilchrist. "After the search I asked [the police] what was going on. They said, 'Your wife has been arrested for homicide.' Then they left. I was in shock."
His eyes perused the living room congested with stuffed animals, furniture, trinkets and photographs of their four children, two of whom live with their maternal grandmother, Lillian Houston, in North Carolina.
Despite the trauma, Gilchrist appeared mildly relieved that his wife was behind bars.
Safe.
He took swig of his take-out coffee and spoke of their four-year marriage.
Petterway had a peculiar laugh and carried a big role of keys, he recalled. She had been his soulmate, he said. "Because everything matched up."
"We talk. Sometimes we watch 'Guiding Light.' We play cards and rent videos. She cooked and cleaned and the sex was great," he said. "But she had a bad habit."
Crack cocaine started eating away at the family, he said.
Petterway, a Jehovah's Witness, sometimes hosted religious meetings in the living room where Gilchrist was ruminating yesterday.
He said he didn't object to her worshipping in the house. He didn't even mind her going out. But he couldn't get her to stop taking drugs.
Gilchrist said he never really knew what she did, between 5 p.m. and 3 a.m. while he worked at his job of seven years as a fork lift operator.
"There was always some type of surprise," he said. "Sometimes I come home and the place is a wreck. I don't like her to do what she does. She was always trying to cover it up."
He shook his head and took another drag.
"She was doing some really crooked stuff," he said. "Writing checks. She owed, she owed."
He last saw his wife on Thursday morning when she left the house to meet a man, he said. She owed him money, too.
Then cops showed up at his front door yesterday around noon, with the search warrant and the general announcement that blew him away.
"Let me just say that she was no peaches and cream," said Gilchrist, alluding to their troubled marriage. "But I can't see her murdering nobody. She wasn't that type of person."The Trentonian 2002 Reader Opinions Be the first person to voice your opinion on this story! -
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by Larry incaptions provided by outnfree - much thanks - ll :) bill bowen awarding the first (uh-oh!
what is the official name?
) silentlambs courage award to corrie pandelo in front of 25 columbia heights awards will be given out quarterly to honor those who come forward as survivors or who advocate the protection of children from molestation.
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The kid with the purple hair (2nd from right) is the son of mikepence!
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"Were any of them Witnesses?"
by kenpodragon init was a typical night at the local kingdom hall.
people were coming in and visiting, looking for seats and laying down publications to mark where they would sit.
people were shaking hands, and the conversation was mixed.
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ken...
I have had the same experience. It's so typical in dubdom.
My thinking began to change just over a year ago. I was working late one night and the Security Guard decided to come to my cubical area and talk to me. I was interested because I thought that I could give this guy a good "witness" (plus, I could increase my service time for the month...LOL!). He had studied under many different religion but never the Witnesses. The topic of 'who is your brother?' came up. In other words, who do you view as your spiritual brothers. He felt as though we're ALL brothers (regardless of race or religion). I disagreed. I said that my brothers are those that share my faith, that they are the ones I would lay down my life for. I even said that I would take a bullet for my brother before I would for someone who wasn't a JW. Not even two seconds went by before I realized how those words sounded. In my head, I began to think. I began to reason in my head that if I believe in the bible and if I believe in Jesus then I really should "take a bullet" for a non-JW before I should for a JW because Jesus gave his life for everyone. Plus, wouldn't it be a GREATER witness if I gave my life up for a non-believer? Wouldn't that have a major impact on that persons' life? I would have a resurrection AND I might potentially gain a brother. Anyway, long story short (too late)...
Nowadays, I view everyone as equal. No religion or race is superior to another. I try to be concerned with ALL who are affected by a tragedy.