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MMINDDing: What’s Gender Got to Do With It?
Bonita Banducci650-529-9336 [email protected]
www.genderwork.com Gender and Engineering, Santa Clara University
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How Can Men and Women Build Effective Partnerships at Work
— to Bring the Best of Both Mindsets?
What is the Contribution Women Make that could be the Strategic Advantage
in the Global Marketplace?
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Catalyst Report: Fortune 500 companies with 3+ women on board gain a significant advantage:
+ 73% return on sales
+ 83% return on equity
+ 112% return on invested capital
McKinsey: Women on board vs. No women
+ 41% return on equity
+ 56% in operating results
Today’s Research on Benefits
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Collective intelligence: Number of women in group linked to effectiveness in solving difficult problems
Researchers document the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well Showed that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the groups' individual members
The tendency to cooperate effectively is linked to the number of women in a group
MIT, Carnegie Mellon 2010
ScienceDaily
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Men’s and Women’s Worldviews
INDIVIDUALISTIC
• Emphasizing status and independence
• Giving information only as needed
• Doing one thing at a time
• Step thinking—compartmentalizing and prioritizing
RELATIONAL
• Connection and Interdependence
• Sharing information
• Doing many things at once
• Web thinking—seeing all ramifications of a concern
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A World of Innovation!Workbook page 3
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CAVEAT
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There Are NO Absolutes
Workbook page 7
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Clash! Eight Cultures that Make Us Who We Are Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner
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Independent Interdependent
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Systems Thinking
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• Different perceptions of competency
• Lack of understanding and skill can breed confusion • Understanding differences empowers everyone
“I wasn’t a Team Player!” Carol Bartz
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Relational Competency = “Preventing Fires”
… as perceived in Individualistic terms
Systems Thinking Getting into other people’s turfs
Complex Problem-Solving Stalling the action
Connecting the Dots Not following call of the quarterback
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Views of Competencies
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M M I N D D I N G
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Skills to Adapt and Adopt
Devil’s Advocate, an Individualistic, Competitive Competency
Angel’s Advocate, a Relational, Collaborative Competency
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Challenging an idea, finding weaknesses, asking “prove it” questions, poking holes into and weakening an argument.
Building a Case, adding to the validity of an idea, asking clarifying questions, suggesting other resources to strengthen the idea
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Connecting the Dots Inductive Reasoning
Systems Thinking/Fire Prevention Seeing all the Ramifications of an Issue to Prevent Fires
Collaboration/Angel’s Advocate Engaging Together in Thinking and Communicating to Build New Ideas
Customer Responsiveness Getting into the Shoes of the Customer and Looking from There
Empowering of Others Expanding the Capacities of Others to Contribute
Values Based Decision Making
MMINDDing: It’s not Common Sense
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