The Latest Insights from Leading NOW

There's a not-so-little hidden secret that women aren't being told about career success. It's a rarely discussed element that holds women back... or propels them ahead. It's one element on which they are consistently rated as under-performing their male counterparts. It is one element missing from (or under-taught in) most organizations' leadership development programs - and frequently totally absent from the activities of women's networks, affinity groups or leadership forums. This one element is the vital missing piece of the success equation for women. I call it The Missing 33%®. It is business savvy with all its related skills and knowledge.

When we asked women to tell us the best career advice they received and applied our definition of leadership to analyze what we heard, we discovered that: Nearly 75% of the advice had to do with the personal greatness component "Use the greatness in you..." Nearly 24% was advice about "...engaging the greatness in others." Only about 2% was advice about how to "...achieve and sustain extraordinary outcomes."