WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH AND COMPASSION.....
"When women support each other, incredible things happened."
I personally believe with the power of women empowerment- for lifting each other. Cause women has the source of "unlimited energy" deep within herself, its just a matter of how they can unleash it. If we eager to help each other to unleash this unlimited energy, the impact will be huge.
I'm so grateful to be surrounded with the positive women figures around. Start from my mother who is strong, independent, and never give up person, till the women I meet in personal and professional network. My former CEO was a women, now at IBM our global CEO also a women, even more, you can find a lot of inspiring-powerful women leaders inside IBM, start from our AP&ASEAN leaders are women, inside ASEAN country leaders (ID, PH, MY, TH) are also women, even further my manager as well as my manager's manager also a women, Wonderful, isn't it? :D
Here I just want to share my perspective on what makes women "different" a distinctive leader, from the women potential angle. Ain't going to compare man and women, cause I believe women and man should support and complement each other, that is why GOD created us in a couple, right? :D.
Im going to combine my thoughts/perspectives with the interesting view from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lead-like-woman-andrea-heuston/.
1. SHE HAS HUGE EMPATHY LEVEL
Empathy is a social instinct, a personal sense that coming from wide experiences. The ability and capacity to understand, and share the feelings with others. It depends on how many bad/good personal experiences we have, also how often we sharpen our humanity sense with others, that is why the empathy level of each person may vary and different. For me as simple as, if I get hurts, I won't let others get the same pain just like me. How? Discover, Reflect, and Revenge with Value, Cause experience will trigger empathy, and empathy will trigger innovative actions that can generate value to change the condition better.
Another interesting story from one of tech leader Satya Nadela, on how he discover his empathy sense, through his book Hit Refresh, when he got the first interview in Microsoft, his manager didnt grill him with his prior experiences or educational pedigree, he simply ask one question, "imagine you see a baby lying in the street, and the baby is crying, what do you do?", and Satya replied, "call 911".
His manager walked out of his office put his arm to Satya and said "you need some empathy man, if a baby is laying on a street crying, pick up the baby". Somehow he got the job anyway, but his manager word have remained Satya to this day, to learn empathy on the deeper level and put this in his leadership way to this day.
2. SHE IS AUTHENTIC
Successful female leaders do not copy others. Rather, they create
extraordinary results through authenticity, a personal style and a
forged consistency to showcasing their unique talents. These leaders
tend to learn from others around them, yet manage to remain true to
themselves, their values, and how they want to be seen in the world, and
by other people.
Cause the Real (meaningful) Win is coming from the Authentic Success.
3. SHE USES HER POWER FOR GOOD-TO MAKE IMPACTS
All great leaders are humane and helpful. Their life work makes a
difference to other individuals. They seek opportunities to make the
world around them better, making a difference to other individuals.
Whether they do so by mentoring another woman in their team and helping
them achieve their own goals, or fighting for human rights, they are
selfless and share their talent with others. Their purpose in being
humble and helpful is always marked by giving others, including
themselves, a sense of hope and inspiration.
As simple as an example in a relationship matter, women will always protecting each other if she knew her friend deserves a better man and strengthen each other when she gets down, that's an undeniable women instinct.
4. SHE IS UNSTOPPABLE WHEN SHE REALIZE SHE DESERVED BETTER
A woman is like a tea bag- you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.-Eleanor Roosevelt
