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“Greater opportunity for women is probably the most significant gain for human freedom in the last century.” Andrew Sullivan, The New Republic. “Tomorrow belongs to women.” Helen Fisher , The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World.
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“Greater opportunity for women is probably the most significant gain for human freedom in the last century.”Andrew Sullivan, The New Republic
“Tomorrow belongs to women.”Helen Fisher, The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
“When land was the productive asset, nations battled over it. The same is happening now for talented people.”Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
“It’s time for U.S. organizations to act. No other country in the world has a comparable supply of professional women waiting to be called into action.This is America’s competitive secret.”Judy B. Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret
“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers outshine their male counterparts in almost every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week, 11.20.00
“Boys are trained in a way that will make them irrelevant.”Phil Slater
Opportunity! U.S.G.B.E.U.Ja. M.Mgt. 41% 29% 18% 6% T.Mgt. 4% 3% 2% <1% Peak Partic. Age 45 22 27 19 % Coll. Stud. 52% 50% 48% 26% Source: Judy Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret
“ ‘Obeying the rules’ is obeying their rules. [Women] can never be powerful as long as they try to be in charge in the same way men take charge.”Harriet Rubin, The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women
27 March 2000: email to TP from Shelley Rae Norbeck “I make 1/3rd more money than my husband does. I have as much financial ‘pull’ in the relationship as he does. I’d say this is also true of most of my women friends. Someone should wake up, smell the coffee and kiss our asses long enough to sell us something! We have money to spend and nobody wants it!”
Women & Design: Men cannot design for women’s needs. Period.
Women & The “Experience Economy”Extraction & Goods: Male dominanceServices & Experiences: Female dominance
Women & Brand Power“We are in the twilight of a society based on data. As information and intelligence become the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: emotion. Companies will thrive on the basis of their stories and myths.Companies will need to understand that their products are less important than their stories.”Rolf Jensen, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY: I am a businessperson. An analyst. A pragmatist. The enormous social good of increased women’s power is clear to me; but it is not my bailiwick. My “game” is haranguing business leaders about my fact-based conviction thatwomen’s increasing power – leadership skills and purchasing power – is the strongest and most dynamic force at work in the American economy today. Dare I say it as a long-time Palo Alto resident … THIS IS EVEN BIGGER THAN THE INTERNET!Tom Peters
