{"id":273,"date":"2011-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodvale.co.uk\/up-front-fergus-byrne\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T23:00:00","slug":"up-front-fergus-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/up-front-fergus-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Front 07\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\">Reading about Margaret Thatcher recently, I was surprised to note that  it was only a little more than twenty years ago when she was still in  power. I had thought it was much longer \u2013 something about the Thatcher  years has always made me think of the dark ages. Much as I appreciate  the \u2018bigger picture\u2019 and the benefits of strong leadership, I can\u2019t help  but remember that there were a lot of very unhappy people living  throughout that era. The Iron Lady often trampled over opposition with  more testosterone than a South African rugby team. On one level she was  massively successful, but could she have been even more successful?  Whilst more and more women are assuming roles as managers, a new study  has revealed that rather than using what should come more easily to  them, like empathy and compassion, many women are increasingly turning  to the stereotypically \u2018male\u2019 traits, such as aggression, to get  results. The study by Professor Paula Nicolson, from the Department of  Health and Social Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, says  that instead of fighting their \u2018natural instincts\u2019 women should embrace  them, because displaying emotional intelligence is the key to being a  better leader. Although Professor Nicolson\u2019s study predominately  concentrated on management in the NHS, she says the results can be  applied to any leaders whether in politics, banking or even football  management. Professor Nicolson said, \u201cIt\u2019s almost like women feel that  they must \u2018act like a man\u2019 and overly develop traits often more  associated with power-hungry city traders. This notion drives women away  from a healthy assertiveness into emulating more aggressive male  models.\u201d Whilst many television programmes actively encourage bullying,  underhand techniques and pushiness to gain success, it is a system that  has no real long term benefit. Trampling on the little people and  talking tough around a boardroom table may make one feel powerful and  important, but working for a long term solution for everyone is a far  more valuable goal.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about Margaret Thatcher recently, I was surprised to note that   it was only a little more than twenty years ago when she was still in   power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-editorials","tag-fergus-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}