Stebbings: Male CEOs highlight strengths while female CEOs lead with weaknesses
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Harry Stebbings is the founder and host of 20VC. He notes a gender discrepancy in how executive guests answer questions about leadership strengths and weaknesses.
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“I ask this of a lot of CEOs, male and female CEOs, and all of the male CEOs go straight to strength. This is what I'm amazing. I'm world class at this. Two minutes later, a minute over the one minute, they stop, and I go, and your weakness? Oh yeah, I forgot about that. And sorry, I don't mean to make it bad, but it's so funny to see, like, the male kind of arrogance, and the female self-deprecating and humility, where they, we start with the weakness as well.”
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