“There are definitely unwritten rules for how you do business and how you succeed,” said Jacque Rast, a civil engineer who is president of the company’s major programs and also a member of its board. With other top female executives, she set about analyzing the company’s informal rules like a curious anthropologist. “We realized that there were some in our company, and one of the ways we are successful is that we tried to understand what they were.”...
Read more …“There are definitely unwritten rules for how you do business and how you succeed,” said Jacque Rast, a civil engineer who is president of the company’s major programs and also a member of its board. With other top female executives, she set about analyzing the company’s informal rules like a curious anthropologist. “We realized that there were some in our company, and one of the ways we are successful is that we tried to understand what they were.”
The gap between the company manual and informal rules remains wide for women in many countries. In a newly issued survey, female executives from more then a dozen European countries contend that a critical unwritten rule for corporate success is still basic: Work long hours. Keep a physical presence in the office.
**The excerpts above are taken from the NYT article, "The Codes That Need to Be Broken" written by Doreen Carvajal linked below. Do click through and read more of the state of women in business.**
