Women and the Vision Thing
by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru - Published in the Harvard Business Review
Women are judged to be less visionary than men in 360-degree feedback. It may be a matter of perception, but it stops women from getting to the top.
In a study of thousands of 360-degree assessments collected by Insead’s executive education program over the past five years, the authors looked at whether women actually received lower ratings than men. To their surprise, they found the opposite: As a group, women outshone men in most of the leadership dimensions measured. There was one exception, however, and it was a big one: Women scored lower on “envisioning”—the ability to recognize new opportunities and trends in the environment and develop a new strategic direction for an enterprise.
