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<\/a><\/p>\nAgain from Tough Choices<\/em>, pp. 145 \u2013 146. \u00a0Still reading the book, but an interesting passage that seems worth sharing. \u00a0Again, typed so please pardon any typos.<\/p>\n. . . I got a call one evening from Pattie to inform me that I had been chosen as the Most Powerful Woman in Business. \u00a0I was stunned, excited, and immediately called my mother, who was ecstatic.<\/p>\n
In that first interview, and for all six years in which I was named the Most Powerful Woman in Business, I said that although I was flattered and honored, the list was a bad idea. \u00a0It is one thing to highlight successful businesswomen. \u00a0That can be a wonderful way to encourage other women to enter the business world, or perhaps to stay there, and it can serve to remind everyone that diversity makes business better. \u00a0But the list sends a different message altogether. \u00a0It implies that business is like tennis or golf or soccer \u2014 there\u2019s the women\u2019s ladder or team, and the men\u2019s. \u00a0Women have to compete against one another because they can\u2019t compete with men. \u00a0Beyond that, there is no Fifty Most Powerful Men in Business list. \u00a0Many male colleagues have frequently expressed to me their gratitude for this fact, especially when they\u2019ve read the descriptions of women who\u2019ve fallen a few notches. \u00a0They\u2019re all glad they don\u2019t have to be subjected to the same level of scrutiny and criticism. \u00a0\u201cThis is what you get when you\u2019re successful?\u201d<\/p>\n
My reasoning obviously didn\u2019t prevail at Fortune<\/em>. \u00a0They\u2019re in business to sell magazines and lists sell. \u00a0The added benefit of a \u201csurprise winner\u201d \u2014 an unknown woman had \u201cbeaten\u201d Oprah Winfrey for the top slot \u2014 also sold. \u00a0It was patently ridiculous to say that Carly Fiorina had more power and influence \u2014 however you choose to define it \u2014 than Oprah Winfrey. \u00a0No objective analysis would support such a conclusion. \u00a0But it made a \u00a0great story.<\/p>\nAfter that, everyone always asked: \u00a0\u201cHow does it feel to be the most powerful woman in business?\u201d \u00a0I didn\u2019t feel any different from the day before, but somehow that answer never was satisfying to people. \u00a0Later I would try to deflect the question by saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know. \u00a0I\u2019ve never been a man.\u201d \u00a0Or perhaps a bit more seriously, \u201cI\u2019ve never thought of myself as a woman in business. \u00a0I\u2019ve thought of myself as a person doing business who happens to be a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
I always wanted to get off the subject as fast as possible. \u00a0I didn\u2019t want to talk about being a woman in business. \u00a0I wanted to talk about business. \u00a0For my entire career I\u2019d been a woman who\u2019d succeeded because I wouldn\u2019t let men pigeonhole me. \u00a0I challenged them when necessary, spoke in language they could understand, and demonstrated my value through actions rather than words. \u00a0I\u2019d made my mark by getting things done. \u00a0Along the way I\u2019d changed a few men\u2019s minds about what women are capable of and provided encouragement and opportunity for other women. \u00a0This new label \u201cWomen in Business\u201d \u2014 most powerful or not \u2014 was going backward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Incidentally, the Forbes<\/em> list continues; here is the most recent version<\/a>. \u00a0Number one is CEO of IBM; number two is CEO of GM.<\/p>\nThoughts?<\/p>\n
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