It goes without saying that, no matter how well equipped, the new CEO has some giant shoes to fill as Nvidia cofounder Huang’s 33-year tenure ends. However, inserting a woman into a burdensome leadership role during a time of absolute crisis isn’t exactly a new tactic.
While women and minorities are promoted to leadership positions less often than men, there is one time when they are asked to lead more often: when massive challenges are afoot.
The Glass Cliff
The phenomenon is referred to as, not punching a hole in a glass ceiling, but rather, standing on the edge of the glass cliff. That’s because, while the promotion itself might look like a win for women in business, the precarious position the new leader steps into often sets her up for failure.
The term itself came from researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK, whose research on 100 companies found that women promoted to leadership roles during times of crisis can face intense challenges. But they often are installed so that they can act as a kind of scapegoat for the company when they fail to extinguish the wildfires, which, in this case (and often), were started by the male predecessors.
She’s an adult. She can say “no.”
Stop infantilizing fully-grown C-suite women.
The Conservatives certainly didn’t promote Teresa May, Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak because Brexit was going well.
Women in the csuite are just as souless and awful as their counterparts.
So a male honeypot is a viable Chinese strategy now?
There needs to be more STEM women in the pipeline. Mom’s and dad’s need to encourage this.
Or encourage the lass to become a plumber. AI won’t be taking over that job anytime soon.
Sure, for a vocation in the short term, but if they want STEM still encourage them (but advise it’s not as profitable as dealing with shit, let them choose). LLMs thrive where they can be quickly corrected for their bullshit (‘hallucinations’ as the companies market anthropormisation) like programming and math and some sciences, but that’s just making crap up and testing it, fast. They’re still (and barring genius architecture changes, will remain) not good (capable) at creativity, in a little while it’ll be another tool for STEM types. As it is even now.
Maybe point them at biology, where it’s always been a complex mess and little is sorted.
au contraire, we need far less stem across the board
The problem with being a vizier who’ve been plotting for years to become the Kalif and having finally maneuvered yourself to be next in the line of succession becomes apparent when you unexpectedly succeed because somebody just chopped the head off your former boss and is now holding a bloody sabre while shouting “All right! Who’s next?”
