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This is because when it comes to the few women who actually make it upwards, a impact pattern that they all share.
“The only correlation they can find from women in the C -Suite, the CEO spot that they do all of them -or the majority played sport,” said Melinda French Gates recently on the power of the women’s sports summit, which was presented by eleven beauty.
“And the thesis is (we don’t know why that is) that it didn’t matter to them,” the 60-year-old billionaire philanthropic and ex-wife of Bill Gates added.
“They step out of the borders to play football, they go back immediately. Sometimes they lose tennis match. They learn to fail and the failure is okay.”
The tennis legend Billie Jean King, who was also in the panel, repeated that girls who grew up, have more self-confidence, more resistance and better do it in mathematics and natural sciences-even if they only play to participate.
“That’s why I want girls in sports,” she added. “You don’t have to be the best.”
“In fact, did you hear from Sally Ride, the first American woman Astronaut?
Just a few years after she went away from her dream of Tennis, she came across a groundbreaking NASA display from 1977: The first to demand female astronauts.
“She was a physicist, she was brilliant, she was always number one in class,” King recalled. “So she registered as a wife of Astronaut, and of course she was selected to be the first American woman.”
“But she told me the reason why she was selected was that she had been a jock.” She said: “I got on better that I understood the male society better because I was in sports and knew her language. I know that is the reason why I was selected first because I was doing sports in my life because I had sports in my life “, and I only have an example of what sport can do for you as a person.”
College jocks -no nerds -to have more successful careers
Gates, king and ride do not imagine it. Jocks really prove to be more successful. An extensive study by the US Ivy League -Amni has shown that those who were consumed with sports -not books -in their youth land more leading positions and high salaries than their “nerd” colleagues
Despite the ancient cliché that Jocks Peak in the High School Peak Fortune 500 CEO– Ironically, athletic students land an MBA and then a company appearance.
And that applies in particular to women. Repeat goals, research of Icing shows that almost all women in the C-Suite (amazing 94%) are former athletes.
It is no coincidence: the leadership qualities, which are cultivated on the field, are exactly the ones that are required in the meeting room.
CEOs previously communicated Assets The sporting sport grows up Teached you trust, teamwork, disciplineand more. Meanwhile after McKinseyThe need for time management, resistance and a learning setting are desirable skills in both the C-Suite and in sports.
“The best managers have now made a generation change in their thinking, which corresponds exactly to how Elite athletes prepare, train and compete,” wrote McKinsey Partners Bob Sternfels and Daniel Pacthod. “In several ways, the two jobs – CEO and athletes – are severely correlated.”
CEOs and sports: from Andy Jassy to Satya Nadella
Just take a look at some of the best managing directors of America and you will soon take an inventory about how many sports grow up. In 2011, Assets Even the Fortune -500 CEOs, which were most successful on the field, with Samuel J. Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM; Walter E. Robb, Whole Foods former CEO; And Boeing’s ex-boss James McNnerney makes everyone the impressive list.
Stephanie Linnartz, the former CEO of Under armorPresent told Assets As a runner, she learned how important it is to treat the path to success as a marathon, not as a sprint.
Finally, the CFO of NFL Christine Dorfler not only shared not only one, but also one, but also one, but also one Three ways Playing Lacrosse at the university helped her land the top job.
And then there is Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who was an emerging athlete before entering the world of work. The multimillionaire Previously revealed That he spent “a lot” from his school days in the field to play “all the sport” instead of holding up and studying his head.
In the meantime, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has also announced that the growth of cricket, as he leads today, shaped. “Team sports have a big impact on who we as citizens and leaders will be” said. “Cricket is a symphony, and every player is a note in this composition. Guided tour in Cricket is about being a guiding light and a source of inspiration.”
