Motherhood has no manuals, no guidelines and no rewards & recognition which makes it the most difficult leadership role ever with a never-ending responsibility of planning, training mentoring, budgeting, decision making, delegating, communicating and a lot more….
I have worked with women leadership / counter-parts many a times in my previous organizations who were not only great leaders but lovable mothers too. I have always admired their managing styles and different perspectives they bring to the table.
A best example will be of Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo who was ranked by Forbes as the 2nd among the world’s 100 most powerful women and 3rd among "World's Powerful Moms" list.
Way back in 2006 when she was appointed as CEO of the $150 billion company, she traveled to India to visit her mother. During her stay in India she had a lot of visitors and random people streaming in only to compliment her mother and say that she did a good job with Indra Nooyi, but not a word to her. It was after that incident, she wrote a letter to the parents of her employees, expressing her gratitude, and a paragraph about what their child was doing at PepsiCo with a note ..
"Thank you for the gift of your child to our company"
By now you would have imagined the impact of this action. The letters made her employees feel appreciated and their families feel proud. I wonder if any man would ever think of doing that. #Kudos to her. More than a leader, I could see a parent, a mother in her.
Likewise, there is a mother in every woman who manages the home as well as work all across the world. While making hard decisions, they drive a strong aspect of empathy and make it much more acceptable and sustainable, helping the organization in the longer run. We have seen our mothers eat last and sacrifice the best for the family.
By design every woman enjoy the quality to derive strong enduring values from their motherhood such as empathy, Diversity of Thinking and greater ability to multi-task, which is in their DNA and they carry that wherever they go.
THE LAST WORD:
When the entire world has come to a standstill amidst #lockdown (covid19), these women, these mothers seem to run the show. They have shown the world how important their work is, which was earlier ignored by many. This moment #respect is the only word which comes to my mind.
"I take this wonderful opportunity to thank the woman who raised me and all the women who supported me to be the man I am today."
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