Cracks in the glass ceiling
Aug. 15th, 2006 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astra_nomerPepsico's new CEO is a woman. Which is great, because so few Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. On the other hand, it's kind of sad that this kind of thing is still big news in the 21st century.
I heard an interesting report about Indra Nooyi on the radio yesterday, and one of the comments that stood out was this: "Nooyi is respected by colleagues for being smart, funny, and very female."
It's a dilemma that successful women face: if you're competing against men and you start competing like a man, that turns people off and you end up losing. And often it's uncharted territory: how do you figure out how to succeed as a woman if you have no role models to go by?
I heard an interesting report about Indra Nooyi on the radio yesterday, and one of the comments that stood out was this: "Nooyi is respected by colleagues for being smart, funny, and very female."
It's a dilemma that successful women face: if you're competing against men and you start competing like a man, that turns people off and you end up losing. And often it's uncharted territory: how do you figure out how to succeed as a woman if you have no role models to go by?
