The Power of Active Thinking by Ulf Löwenhav

Author:Ulf Löwenhav [Ulf Löwenhav]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Power of Active Thinking
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Published: 2022-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

Intelligence levels example

Two distribution curves with identical means but different dispersion. Note that the curve with the greater dispersion yields higher values in both the lowest and highest ends of the range.

The same may apply to the character traits of being adventurous and creative, where on average there is no difference but, on the extremes, there is a distribution with longer tails for men. So, where does this lead us? To equality; we are all different and we need each other if we are to create equality and good performance. Equality of opportunity is truly great, but equality of outcome isn’t logical, because the truth cannot be sexist.

There are also different demands on the genders. One such demand is that typically women have been the ones who have taken the responsibility to stay at home and look after children while the men disappeared into hunting ventures for days or weeks. While men focused on being a popular part of a group, women focused on taking responsibility and fitting in with other women in the tribe. In this way, and through evolution, perhaps women’s ability to take social responsibility grew stronger. Maybe it is this development that has prevented women from focusing on their careers in the modern world. Men grew the ability to focus on themselves, and in the modern world undertake 70-hour weeks. Do women have what it takes to be as successful as men? The answer would off course be, ‘yes’. Whilst women are different from men in many ways, it is these differences that make them suitable in their own way, such as being more agreeable, more structured and more risk-averse. All of these are excellent traits for management positions.

In the boardroom itself, the decision making process is directly affected by gender. Tribal forces are likely to make men support each other, to the detriment of good and fluent decision making. The male tribe is balanced by the board tribe, but it is unlikely that the female tribe would function in the same way. This is because often there aren’t equal numbers of men and women and is also due to the pressures on women. They often make their decisions strategically and not through blind faith. Men, on the other hand, would support each other in this way.

Decision making is also affected by gender in terms of myths.

There are women in the world of finance, where there appears to be little difference in terms of academic acumen. Despite this, only a fraction of people working in investment banks are women. When we look back at our evolutionary past, we can think that maybe it is not the quantitative nature of this industry that has kept women out but the requirement of deal-making attributes that need tribe inclusion. How can you get access to decision-makers if you don’t have access to CEOs, mostly men, because you are not a member of the tribe, the male tribe?

Men have historically been more in power than women, so it is easy to see how agenda-setting has directly contributed to the exclusion of women.

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