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August 18, 2005
Leadership Thought: Commentary by Linda Coughlin, Cedant
Linda Coughlin is chief administrative officer at Cendant, co-editor of Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership (Jossey-Bass/Wiley 2005) and founding partner of The Enlightened Power Project (www.enlightenedpower.com), a leadership consortiumthat incubates and deploys customized leadership programs
From Forbes.com:
Women Are Transforming Leadership
Linda Coughlin, 08.03.05, 12:40 PM ET
NEW YORK - The 21st century leaders to be emulated have rendered the traditional command-and-control management style irrelevant and ineffective in today’s borderless, dynamic, inclusive and inventive economy. Women have a big story to tell here.
Numerous statistical indicators put women in the front and center of business change: the U.S. Census Bureau measured women as the largest segment of our population in 2003 and accounted for more than $5 trillion in annual business and consumer spending combined, according to EPM Magazine. What’s more, women–owned businesses generate $2.5 trillion in sales and employ 19.1 million people according to the Center for Women’s Business Research.
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