DeepDyve eBooks - A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom

Introduction

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 1 –5

[The way we live, our material well-being and the extent to which we realize our dreams for ourselves and our families are all deeply influenced by the large capitalist corporations that create most of the world’s wealth and to the service of which most of us devote our skill, talent and working...

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The customer is queen

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 6 –19

[The directors of Cisco Systems were assembled in the boardroom waiting for their new CEO, John Chambers. They knew the boss was in the building, because he had been spotted. Had he forgotten? Didn’t he realize the importance of his inaugural board meeting? Chambers turned up half an hour late....

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Companies are kingdoms

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 20 –32

[A group of 30 middle managers divided roughly equally between the sexes had assembled off-site to discuss their company’s new “diversity” program.]

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Conversations with kings

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 33 –56

[If, as we believe, a gender bias persists in our large companies and it is imposing an opportunity cost on shareholders, its removal is in everyone’s interests. But you can’t begin to remove a bias before you have acknowledged its existence. For a bias to be remediable, it must first become...

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The view from marzipan

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 57 –86

[In Chapter 1 we looked at the mismatch between the gender balance of boards and the gender balance of the marketplace and new graduates, and presented some evidence of a positive link between the proportion of women on a board and financial performance.]

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Bridging the gap

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 87 –110

[Most of the time being joint authors poses no problems. We are friends, and we both believe passionately that major companies need more women on their boards. We have the same outlook on most matters connected with the subject and, although we argue and debate with each other, we usually end up...

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A woman’s touch

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 111 –126

[The John Lewis Partnership (JLP), one of the UK’s largest, oldest and most durably successful retailing groups, is an oddity. It is so different from its rivals (see box) that it seems very likely that its success is because of, rather than despite, its many distinctive features.]

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The experience of women directors

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 127 –141

[We summarized the views of corporate kings and “marzipan” women about gender imbalances on US and UK boards in Chapters 3 and 4, and reported in Chapter 5 on the progress of a mentoring program designed to bring these two groups together to help to redress the imbalance.]

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Headhunters

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 142 –153

[From Palaeolithic times until the early 20th century, from Ireland and the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, to India, Indonesia, Africa, Australasia and South America, peoples ancient and relatively modern removed and preserved human heads.]

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Priming the pipeline

Thomson, Peninah; Graham, Jacey; Lloyd, Tom

Pages: 154 –176

[The head of HR at a FTSE 100 company had supported the formation by some of the group’s senior female executives of a “women’s network”. He could scarcely have done otherwise. The CEO was in favor for one thing and for another, the HR director knew these women. He liked and respected them and it...

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