Comments on: Do Woman Define Success in Business Differently Than Men?

By: Modite - Women are the new men

Modite - Women are the new men — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:08:31 +0000

[...] ownership stake of 50 percent or more in nearly half of all privately held businesses.â€ In fact, women are starting businesses at a rate of twice that of men, attracted to the flexible lifestyle of being your own [...]

By: John Jantsch

John Jantsch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Robert,

With all these calls for logic you are playing right into this! – I’m just having some fun with this, no source data required.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

1. That may be statistically correct, can you reference this?

2. I could be wrong, but aren’t men attracted to it for the same reason? If not what are they in it for?

3. Why? What is the logic to this?

4. I don’t understand. Does that mean that women define success in more diverse ideas? If so, how?

The only insight that seems logical is #1. I don’t mean to rain on the parade. I think the #3 insight rubbed me the wrong way; if I had reversed that sentence, women would be up in arms.

By: Cindy Dykstra

Cindy Dykstra — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

1. Yes! I read that statistic somewhere and blogged about it a while back: http://www.cdwebmaker.com/blog/

2. Yes! I think we, as in women, juggle twice as much in the life/work arena as men. Running our own business gives us the freedom we need to pick up kids at school at 3:15.

3. Yes! We’re more flexible in our attitudes, our behaviors, more talented at coming up with creative solutions, etc.

4. Yes! For men, it’s ALL about the money. Women can get success from success itself. We just find more ways to define success.

Ok, you GUYS, flame away! I’m a woman, I can take it

By: John Jantsch

John Jantsch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Cindy,

To me success is the ability to spend more time with my wife doing very little. So maybe you still have some evolving to do in your man thinking.

By: Fiona L Brown

Fiona L Brown — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Isnâ€™t success and what we define as success down to the individual?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

John, if it’s in jest, it’s tough to pick up the tone. Sarcasm doesn’t travel well over the superhighway unfortunately. I honestly didn’t know that was your intent? Either you agree with the information you presented or you don’t. My guess is that you were deliberately doing this to create a argumentative forum and corresponding traffic.

So do you agree with what you wrote John? Or do you think it’s off base?

Cindy, good luck with those opinions. BTW when you say you blogged about something, use a permalink to the actual post.

By: Cindy Dykstra

Cindy Dykstra — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Geez, you folks are very nice! I expected much, much worse (I was trying to push a little, but yeah, sarcasm doesn’t come across well online).

In truth, I am not as narrow-minded as my comment. I do know many men in business who are better, smarter, more generous in their thinking and share the same idea of success as I do. I don’t believe in generalizations of gender or anything else for that matter.

Having said that, though, if you read this post (sorry, I was too lazy to look it up yesterday) especially the bit about my sisters’ attitudes, you’ll get a peek at our world. Really, do you think she would have said that to a man? And if she did, how would a man react to it?