The New Secret To Being Successful at Work
You probably already know that being aggressive, assertive, and confident in the workplace often makes women more likely to get a promotion or raise.
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But what you may not have heard is that being able to turn those traits on and off depending on the circumstances (as opposed to showing the three characteristics 100 percent of the time) are even more successful at work, according to a recent study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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An explanation of the research on the stanford.edu site calls aggressiveness, assertiveness, and confidence "masculine traits" (uh, clearly they're not hanging out with some of the awesome women we know!). And the lead researcher said that the most successful women "were able to be chameleons, to fit into their environment by assessing social situations and adapting their actions accordingly,”
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More specifically, "they must simultaneously present themselves as self–confident and dominant while tempering these qualities with displays of communal characteristics." To put it plainly, we need to be bitches sometimes, and easy-to-get-along-with team players at other times.
What do you think of the findings? Do you think women who can turn the bitchy on and off are more likely to get ahead?
Read more at Cosmopolitan.com!
