The blog of Michael Hugos at CIO.com is a favorite of mine, because I seem to tune in easily to the concepts he holds dear. He had this bit of food for thought the other day (the emphasis is mine):
I’ve got a pretty good grasp on the broad outlines of world history for the last 5,000 years or so; and there are two totally new things happening right now that have never happened before. I believe these two things are the foundations of 21st Century innovation and agility.
The first new thing is global delivery of real-time feedback via rich media like streaming video and moving 3D graphics. The second new thing is full and equal participation of women in politics and business.
…It’s not that women are any smarter than men (although they might be); it’s that they see the world from a different perspective and we need both the female perspective and the male perspective to see the world clearly; just as we need two eyes to see the world in three dimensions. It’s not that one eye is better than the other, but you can’t have true depth perception without the stereo vision that comes from two eyes – from two separate views.
I found this a perceptive way to describe the crucial roles of both genders in business (even if I don’t agree yet that women are “fully and equally” participating in politics).
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