Leadership a man's way - Is it the right way?

In my quest to empower women to help other women through inspirational messages (my goal 500 in 30 days so please help) I have had great learning about women through men (yes I said men). I just returned from a weekend with friends in New York. I had the opportunity to meet a wonderful couple who shared their story openly. A very unlikely couple at first glance but after learning their story you very quickly realized their common bond, which was the power of intention. She an exotic beauty that is passionate about empowering young women through some very interesting initiatives along with being a very talented musician, and he a very prominent attorney with an office in the Empire State building (best way to tour the building). I had the opportunity for a one on one conversation with him regarding women and the lack of support amongst strong successful business women. We had ended up on a discussion about leadership. We got there through discussing women in politics (Hilary Clinton to be exact) and ended up with the question of why women are hesitant to support other women in attaining powerful leadership positions. His perspective was that the current leadership model in the US was created by predominantly white men and women for some reason think they have to use that model to attain leadership positions. He went on to add that his felt women could bring amazing things to the idea of leadership if they only focused on using their true essence. So what innate skills to women have that would add tremendous value to the current leadership model developed by men? My first thoughts are of multi tasking skills. It is widely accepted that women have the ability to multi task much more easily then men. My second thought is compassion. Yes women have a sense of compassion for community that lends itself to excellent team building. And finally we can not leave out the natural ability to nurture. My question to for us to consider is had our country been lead by a leadership model that had these skills that are inherent in women along with what traditionally is thought of as true leadership skills, what might our country look like today. And my final question is what can we as women do today to become leaders using our true essence versus assuming that we must conform to the leadership models of the past? Give today by sending a message of inspiration to women. Just click on the image to the right. Thank you for making a difference.

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