RWL Newsletter #53
Greetings from the University of New Hampshire! Is it hot enough for ya? Holy cow. It's been like 90 degrees this week - which sounds like nothing to my Texas friends, but when you have two window unit air conditioners in your whole house, that's a whole different game.
This week's theme is women and leadership. I can't claim to know about being a woman leader from personal experience. But because of my career choices, almost all of my employees and many of the senior leaders I reported to have been women. I'm fairly comfortable with women leaders as a result. The students in my program are about 70% women, too. So I spend a lot of time talking to young women about becoming leaders. And I happen to be the father of three daughters, and so I worry about their future, and I want to be sure they have the opportunity to succeed based on their abilities and hard work. So I might not know what it is to be a woman and a leader from first hand experience, but I'm very interested in seeing women succeed as leaders. So here are some interesting links about women and leadership.
Read
What: A Study of the Champagne Industry Shows That Women Have Stronger Networks, and Profit from Them
https://hbr.org/2017/07/a-study-of-the-champagne-industry-shows-that-women-have-stronger-networks-and-profit-from-them
Why: There's a lot of great literature in the institutional economics field about how minorities capitalize on their distinctiveness to capture rents (excess profit). One of my favorites is Avner Grief's treatment of an 11th century Jewish sect called the Maghribi who took advantage of their uniqueness to engage in long distance trading across the Mediterranean. I thought this HBR piece was an interesting modern example of how women who are in a minority in an industry give each other better deals. From the article: "Often, minorities who are excluded from the majority will seek solidarity with one another, and this was certainly the case for the female growers, who tended to interact for social support. These informal relationships frequently led to the women exchanging useful knowledge and market information that the men tended to keep secret."
Watch
What: MOTIVATION FOR WOMEN "DESTINY" Oprah Winfrey's - Motivational Speech (3 minutes)
https://youtu.be/0jaMXGnDnJQ
Why: I especially liked the line, "Failure is there to point you in a different direction."
Listen
What: Health Leader Forge interview with Joni Spring, Director of Outpatient Nursing and Clinic Operations for DHMC
http://healthleaderforge.blogspot.com/2017/07/joni-spring-director-of-outpatient.html
Why: Joni has had over 30 years of experience as nurse, most of that time as a nurse leader and nurse executive. In this podcast we talk about Joni’s passion for nursing, a field she always knew was going to be her life’s work from the time she was a small child.
I really enjoyed talking with Joni because she is clearly an authentic leader. She is quite candid in the interview about her many successes as well as some of her most difficult failures, including overcoming discrimination. Her story is well worth listening to. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
That's it for this week! Drop me a line and let me know what you think. I really like hearing back from you about the links you liked.
Thanks for reading and see you next week!
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Mark
Mark J. Bonica, Ph.D., MBA, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
University of New Hampshire
(603) 862-0598
mark.bonica@unh.edu
Health Leader Forge Podcast: http://healthleaderforge.org
Twitter: @bonicatalent
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau