'Brands' findings suggest good things for the future of women at work. The organizational models that favor "more cohesive and collaborative styles of leadership" are exactly the organizational models that are on the rise..'<blockquote>'More and more companies are moving away from top-down hierarchies and toward more collaborative models.
In what might be the buzziest example in recent memory, Zappos ditched managers altogether, as part of their high-profile transition to Holacracy, an alternative model structured around "self-management."
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Her
recent study, published in "Organization Science," suggests that male leaders are perceived as more charismatic (and therefore more inspirational and motivating)
only in centralized networks — those star-driven organizations with "clear pecking orders and stratification of status and power."
But in more cohesive networks — the kinds of places where "everybody goes to everybody else for advice," Brands explains — female leaders are actually seen as
more charismatic than men.
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Brands' findings suggest good things for the future of women at work. The organizational models that favor "more cohesive and collaborative styles of leadership" are exactly the organizational models that are on the rise. And these, Brands says, "are the organizations where we’re really going to see woman emerge as leaders."
But there's no need for the Johns and the Davids of the world to panic, she promises. "This doesn't mean that men are in trouble, because what we find is that cohesive networks help everyone." '
- Rachel Sugar,
Why the future of work is looking bright for women, Jun. 12, 2015</blockquote>
Context '..leaders..' - Terri Kelly
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(To Heal)(Management innovation) - '..Teal Organizations to start healing the world..''Reinventing Organizations .. the German translation sold 1600 copies in the first 6 weeks..' (June 10, 2015)'Reinventing Organizations: Ein Leitfaden zur Gestaltung neuer Formen der Zusammenarbeit und einer neuen Führungskultur'</blockquote>