Making Great Decisions
Women at Work
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Are You Anxious About Taking a Risk?
If you're a female leader of a team, there's an expectation that you'll collaborate and take other people's views into account. And women tend to pay a higher penalty for making decisions autocratic. If a woman brings other people into the decision and it fails, she's much more easily forgiven for that than if she made that decision on her own. So i think that, particularly for risky decisions, there's a lot of wisdom in bringing in otherpeople into the decision. Because if it turns out that it doesn't work, you've patted yourself. It's interest, it's frustrate. But it's interestinghrit so what if taking a risk and when you're
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