Tag: crisis

  • In A Crisis, Why Women Need To Take Charge

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    I built my career being the person who turned around failing operations and projects.  My jobs were really hard work and extremely stressful.  It wasn’t until I wrote my article on men and work hours that I really started questioning why I (and the other women in the office) stayed in there and kept working while the men eventually gave up and left.  In my article I wrote that men have a limit on the number of hours they really work and the amount of stress they could handle.

    After doing a little research I learned that my experiences reflect how men and women handle stress differently. (more…)

  • The Great American Alligator Slayer

    I first wrote about the Great American Alligator Slayer © in 1991.  I got the idea from thinking about how I was told to distinguish myself and get ahead at work.  It is a very male concept.Alligator Slayer

    As a woman, you don’t want to embrace this concept for yourself but it is important to understand it because it is still relevant.  In a humorous way it explains what your male peers may be aspiring to.

    As I often talk about, the male workplace produces a slew of problems and crises it must deal with and make go away.  If we go back to the old analogy and equate problems to alligators, a company that is plagued with problems is “up to its waist in alligators.”  So what do they do?

    They hire – The Great American Alligator Slayer! (more…)