Sunday, March 11, 2012

Women and Office Politics

As the father of two daughters, I'm keenly interested in the role of gender in business. This Harvard Business Review blog article caught my attention: Three Ways Women Can Make Office Politics Work For Them.

I particularly liked the Mary Matalin quote, "This business about politics at work being sleazy drives me crazy. Virtue can be the essence of politics. The reality is that politics can be just as virtuous or as sleazy as you are." That's a lesson that breaks the gender barrier.