She would get really angry when she couldn't understand things. Like the law.

Following months of fruitless negotiations, I once said to her "Hey ###, you can look like a heroine within your organisation, and save your global organisation a fortune, and stay within the law at the same time. We can help you."

She took those words on board and from that moment started cooperating.

I am NOT a misogynist. However in 51 years of working in business, at all position levels, I can assure you women in business are the most difficult to work with.

I am not about to go into details as to why I think that is the case. Not even saying it's womens' fault. Accept that please before throwing your toys out of the pram!

Women would argue it's the way I communicate with them. But that is definitely not true. I make no exceptions or make any changes in my style, management or communications approach. I have fallen out with fewer blokes in my business life than I can count on the fingers of my two hands. And that's out of thousands.

With women you can add at least a nought, and some, to that figure. Out of just a few hundred.

The woman who have fallen out with me I know for certain have fallen out with everyone else around them.

One of the 'sayings', of my own creation, has always been "If you can help someone else succeed, and they are a deserving cause, then it practically guarantees your own success."

Perhaps I should never have read James Thurber's, 'The Carnival' circa 1960, about the fictional battle between the sexes, when I was 11 or 12 years of age.

Who have been the losers in these half century long gender impacted encounters? Not us. Take note ladies!


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Bringing benefits of computerisation to our RAC industry - without the commonly associated problems.

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