Make Room for Her: Why Companies Need an Integrated Leadership Model to Achieve Extraordinary Results

by Rebecca Shambaugh

Overview

BETTER BALANCE LEADS TO BETTER BUSINESS RESULTS

Successful organizations of the future will be led by fully engaged, balanced teams of men and women working together synergistically to produce extraordinary results.

Studies prove that organizations with a greater number of women in senior executive roles are more profitable, have greater market share, and are better able to compete and grow. Businesses with fewer women leaders are just plain leaving money on the table. Yet even in the twenty-first century, women are still not equally represented in leadership.

In her groundbreaking new book, leadership expert Rebecca Shambaugh argues that business leaders need to embrace and leverage the broader spectrum of gender intelligence that fosters a balanced leadership perspective and yields better business results. Make Room for Her reveals:

• What an "Integrated Leadership" model looks like
• Why the Integrated Leadership approach is powerful--and sustainable
• What organizations, men, and women can do to harness the unique qualities of men and women
• How to ensure female talents don't go unnoticed

Make Room for Her provides firsthand advice from men on how women can grow and advance to the senior leadership and executive levels, and it offers a female's perspective on how men can best coach and support them in doing so.

Featuring interviews with more than 50 top executives as well as case studies based on Shambaugh's work coaching hundreds of women and men leaders, Make Room for Her is essential reading for anyone who hopes to lead an organization to greatness.

"Make Room for Her delivers the essential message of Integrated Leadership to leaders at every level of every organization. This indispensable handbook delivers a new model for the organization of the future." -- FRANCES HESSELBEIN, President and CEO, The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute

"Rebecca Shambaugh's extremely informative, entertaining, and insightful new book is aimed at both a male and female audience. It succinctly describes business leadership models that drive top performance in organizations, as well as proactive steps female executives can take to assume responsibility for their careers and become a significant part of the leadership equation." -- KAREN BECHTEL, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

"Diversity is about more than values and culture--it's also about taking action. Shambaugh provides a road map to cultural change with practical stops along the way for employees of both genders." -- SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT, Economist and CEO, Center for Talent Innovation

"Make room to read Rebecca Shambaugh's new book on Integrated Leadership. It will cause you to rethink the leadership model your organization follows and provide you with clear strategies for integrating the best of both men and women leaders to drive performance." -- DOTTIE BRIENZA, Chief Diversity Officer and Executive Talent Leader, Merck

"Rebecca Shambaugh's years of strategic leadership development, her extensive study of current business trends, and her real-world interactions with industry leaders have given her extraordinary insight into the importance of increasing women’s senior leadership roles." -- JOHN B. VEIHMEYER, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, KPMG LLP

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071797931
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

REBECCA SHAMBAUGH is an internationally known and sought-after speaker on best practices and strategies for leading in the twenty-first century. As president and CEO of SHAMBAUGH, Rebecca has worked with clients including Pfizer, Oracle, Marriott, IBM, Cisco, the Department of the Interior, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson, MetLife, Microsoft, and KPMG. She is also the founder of Women in Leadership and Learning (WILL), the first executive leadership development program in the country dedicated to the research, advancement, and retention of women leaders and executives.

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MAKE ROOM FOR HER

WHY COMPANIES NEED AN INTEGRATED LEADERSHIP MODEL TO ACHIEVE EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS

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By Rebecca Shambaugh

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Copyright © 2013Rebecca Shambaugh
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-07-179792-4

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Excerpt

CHAPTER 1

The Need for Integrated Leadership

Not long ago, I sat down over coffee with the CEO of an IT company. The CEO—we'll call him Robert—shared with me that his organization had been the market leader in its industry for the past five years and had enjoyed consistent growth and profitability. The company's success to that point, he believed, was based on its leadership and its employees' sheer drive and relentless focus on key results.

Yet despite its past success, Robert confided that he had deep concerns about the company's future. A competitor with a creative, new technology had recently overtaken Robert's company as the market leader, and he had just learned that his company had lost one of its key customers to this competitor. To make matters worse, the organization's most recent employee survey revealed that morale was low, people were burned out, communication was lacking, and employees had lost faith in leadership.

In strategy sessions with his executive team, Robert had sat and listened as various leaders rationalized that the competitor's innovation was nothing more than a fad that would quickly run its course, and when that happened, customers would come back. Robert shared, "That was when it hit me that this was the kind of thinking that got us where we are today ... in trouble. Looking around the table, I realized that I have a team full of left-brain thinkers who are proficient in fact-based decision making, efficiency and process oriented, and extremely results focused. But we are sorely missing creativity, collaboration, a big-picture perspective, listening skills, and emotional intelligence. When our big customer left for the competition, they told us that they felt we didn't listen to or understand their needs."

Then Robert told me about a woman who had been on the executive team until she was hired away by another company. She had always been the "voice of the customer" and had communicated that the key customer wasn't happy. Somewhat embarrassed, Robert confessed that the rest of the executive team had discounted her input. "Now I see the different perspective and value she brought to our organization," he said and then concluded, "I think we need some balance on the leadership team."

In my leadership development and executive coaching practice, I see many talented executives and profitable organizations that have achieved measurable success and yet suddenly find themselves falling behind the market and the competition. Consistently, I find that the primary reason for this shift is that these leaders and organizations continue to rely on the same leadership approach that garnered them success in the past. And why shouldn't they? If it's not broken, don't fix it, right? While current leadership models aren't necessarily "broken," the reality is that they can't and won't drive success in today's business environment. In other words, what got you where you are isn't going to get you where you want to go in the future. The world is a very different place than it was just 10 short years ago. You simply can't run a successful company in today's complex global marketplace the same way you did in the past. The truth is that we can no longer use the same thought and decision-making processes and expect to be successful ... twentieth-century leadership models won't work for twenty-first-century organizations and twenty-first-century problems. We need a different leadership model—a shift to a new model of leadership that gives organizations a better chance of not just surviving, but thriving, both now and in the years to come.

Successful organizations of the future will be led by fully engaged, balanced teams of men and women working together synergistically to produce extraordinary results. I call this Integrated Leadership. Leaders who create high-performing organizations and get lasting results are those who value and leverage the broad spectrum of gender intelligence—an intentional balance that enables an organization to deal with the complexities in today's marketplace. A balanced, Integrated Leadership team is the new competitive advantage.

So what happened to Robert and his organization? Through the course of our conversation, he came to understand that he had been operating with only half of his potential leadership capacity. He also realized that if his organization was going to continue to succeed in the future, he would need a broader range of leadership traits, thinking, and perspectives in order to respond to market dynamics, challenges, and opportunities.

In the following months, Robert worked to shift his leadership team. He brought on new leaders who possessed a diversity of perspectives, styles, and traits and represented both left- and right-brain thinking. With a balanced, Integrated Leadership team in place, over time his organization earned back customers it had lost, and it regained market share.

A New Approach to Leadership

The idea of a new leadership model is not only interesting; it is now essential for most organizations to be successful in our ever-changing and always challenging global business environment. I've interviewed more than 50 successful top executives on this topic and discovered that I'm not the only one who recognizes the urgency for a new approach to leadership. Many business leaders already sense that the leadership style that worked for them in the past is less effective in the context of today's realities. Gary Stuggins, executive vice president of the World Bank, shared with me that there is an underlying force causing organizations and leaders to rethink how they plan, make decisions, engage employees, and interact with clients. This new way of thinking and operating is reshaping leadership in organizations.

Dottie Brienza, chief diversity officer and head of Executive Talent at Merck (former senior vice president of Global Talent Management for Hilton International), shared a similar perspective:

The level of complexity that organizations are dealing with, as well as the level of ambiguity and the challenges of our global focus, has increased significantly. If you think back about 20 years ago and consider typical Fortune 50–100 leaders, their job was probably very centric to the country in which they were operating. Maybe they were just starting to venture out in other parts of the globe. Or if they were already established in other parts of the world, the company was structured such that the local management in those areas was only worried about things that were happening in that part of the world. Now our leaders need to think about all the events happening around the world to determine and address their impact on all phases of their business operation. To do this, they have to integrate a variety of information sources into a more holistic perspective to determine appropriate courses of action—organizationally and interpersonally. This requires strong analytical skills along with a higher level of emotional intelligence than they have ever needed before.

Our customers, like our planet, are diverse, with different likes and needs. If we only have one type of executive—whether that be all women, all male, all whatever—when we're dealing with human beings and relationships, we will be limited—only recognizing that narrow slice of the world—and we'll miss all kinds of opportunities, even conversations that are ultimately crucial to our success. And as a result, we will miss a critical chance for the continuous learning that will keep us at the top of our industry today and give us that competitive advantage we need to remain there in the future. That's why I believe we need what you are calling "Inte
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Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part I Integrated Leadership: How Men and Women Can Achieve Extraordinary Results Together

Chapter 1 The Need for Integrated Leadership 3

Chapter 2 The Brain Science Behind the Integrated Leadership Model 15

Chapter 3 The Benefits of Integrated Leadership 27

Chapter 4 Where Are the Women? 33

Part I Summary 40

Part II Integrated Leadership: Men's Role

Chapter 5 Give Men a Chance! 45

Chapter 6 Men's Biases About Women 55

Chapter 7 What Men Aren't Telling Women 65

Chapter 8 Coaching Women Off Their Sticky Floors 79

Chapter 9 What Men Can Do to Help Women Advance 89

Part II Summary 96

Part III Integrated Leadership: Women's Role

Chapter 10 Misconceptions Women Have About Being an Executive 99

Chapter 11 Getting on the Right Escalator 111

Chapter 12 Leverage Your Personal Power 129

Chapter 13 Leverage Your Organizational Power 143

Chapter 14 Showing Up Strategic 155

Chapter 15 Sponsorship Is Key for Advancement 171

Part III Summary 189

Part IV Integrated Leadership: The Organization's Role

Chapter 16 Organizations Can Make It Happen 193

Part IV Summary 213

Conclusion 215

Index 217