Results at the Top

BARBARA ANNIS is founding partner of Gender Intelligence Group (GIG). She is the author of Same Words, Different Language, Third Edition, and coauthor of several books, including Gender Intelligence and Work With Me.
 
RICHARD NESBITT is president and CEO of Global Risk Institute. He is also adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto and chair of the advisory board to its Mind Brain Behaviour Hive.

What if your company could gain a greater profit share of the market simply by promoting more women into its senior management team? Sounds like a no-brainer, and despite nearly every study done in the past three decades proving companies with women leaders deliver superior performance, the number of women in the C-suites of companies all over the world is noticeably low. Results at the Top is written for the men who know the value female leaders bring to the table and need a tangible way to get them there.
 
Whether you're building your leadership team from scratch or trying to transform long-established norms for a competitive advantage today, the practical guidance inside wastes no space with blame for the current state of women leaders and goes straight to the immediate steps organizations can take to change it. It gives you everything you need to both create the internal systems for promoting gender diversity on every step of the career ladder and motivating employees to celebrate its shared, bottom-line benefits.
 
Up-to-date viewpoints don't confuse equal with same and go in-depth into the scientific differences between men and women that can complement each other to produce higher performing teams. Along with neurological variances, there are societal behaviors men and women need to recognize and substitute with more productive and advantageous ones. Through eye-opening research and illustrative examples from the real world, both sexes gain a deeper understanding of how we got here and the pioneering systems companies in the highest echelons of their industries are using to evolve leadership development all the way to the top. This everyday guidebook will immediately change the way you approach work with:
* A powerful new evaluation method for assessing the source of gender diversity in a company's leadership
* Concrete strategies men can use to champion greater gender diversity along with ways men and women can improve collaboration in order to run better organizations
* Focused coverage on addressing gender diversity with Millennials--and don't be surprised when you find they're not so different
 
The most satisfying part of Results at the Top is watching your company's performance soar as gender bias disappears.

Acknowledgments xi
 
Introduction xiii
 
Chapter 1 Your Wake-Up Call 1
 
Diversity at the Top: Correlates with Better Performance, 1
 
How We Came Together, 3
 
Barbara's Wake-Up Call, 4
 
When I Became a Real Manager of People, 6
 
The Diversity Money Pit, 7
 
What Makes the Difference, 9
 
Brushing Your Horse, 10
 
Lack of "Gender Success" Is Costly, 11
 
This Is Your Toolkit, 11
 
Endnotes, 12
 
Chapter 2 The Business Case for the Advancement of Women 15
 
"Let's Do It!", 16
 
Defining Superior Performance, 17
 
Adding Women to Boards, 18
 
The Reason for the Improvement in Financial Performance, 20
 
The Future of Leadership, 20
 
"Values Don't Matter If We're Not Making the Numbers", 21
 
Endnotes, 31
 
Chapter 3 Ascent of Neuroscience 35
 
Equal Does Not Mean the Same!, 36
 
The Ascent of Neuroscience, 36
 
The Domino Effect, 36
 
Bell Curve of Gender Tendencies, 37
 
The Ability to Peer More Deeply, 38
 
Sex Differences in Brain Structure and Function, 40
 
Sex Differences in Hormonal Composition, 44
 
The Breakthrough That Knowledge Brings, 45
 
Endnotes, 46
 
Chapter 4 Ascent of Women 49
 
The First Long Step, 50
 
Women Joining Business Clubs, 51
 
Cultures Clinging to Tradition, 52
 
The Ascent of Women, 52
 
An Economic Necessity Versus a Choice, 58
 
Areas Where Glass Ceilings Still Exist, 59
 
Endnotes, 66
 
Chapter 5 Ascent of Men 71
 
Men Accelerating Change, 71
 
The Evolution of an Attitude, 75
 
Evolution in Our Thinking, 80
 
Are We Stalled or Advancing?, 81
 
The "Aha" Moment, 83
 
Breaking the Mold, 84
 
Endnotes, 87
 
Chapter 6 Millennials: Facts and Fictions 89
 
It's Not a Generational Issue, 89
 
How Much the Same We Really Are, 96
 
Why Women Are Needed in the Tech Industry, 97
 
It's Not a Generational Issue, 99
 
Endnotes, 100
 
Chapter 7 What Works and What Doesn't 101
 
We're over the Tipping Point, 103
 
How to Create Sustainable Change, 104
 
What Works and Why, 105
 
What Doesn't Work and Why, 108
 
Other Best Practices, 112
 
Critical Mass and Critical Mindset, 114
 
Endnotes, 114
 
Chapter 8 The Role of the Board 117
 
Lack of Mentoring, 118
 
Stereotypes in Business, 118
 
Richard's Story: Boards in the 2008 Financial Crisis
 
and Their Gender Composition, 119
 
The Quota Experience in Norway, 121
 
Picking the Best Candidate Remains Vital to Success, 122
 
It May All Start with the Board of Directors, 123
 
Humans Follow Role Models, 126
 
Role Models Are Leaders, 126
 
Women's Participation in Management and on Boards, 129
 
Men's Beliefs and Behaviors Are Changing...Slowly, 130
 
Endnotes, 131
 
Chapter 9 Measuring Commitment 133
 
A General Model for Gender Diversity in Management
 
Information Systems (MIS), 134
 
Defining a Model for Gender Diversity, 135
 
Gender Diversity Model for Management Information
 
System (MIS), 138
 
Constructing a New Gender Propensity Index(c), 142
 
What Happens Next?, 143
 
Endnotes, 144
 
Chapter 10 How to Rid the Plumbing of Bias 145
 
Gender Parity in New Graduates, 146
 
Sourcing, Job Descriptions, and Interviewing, 146

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