In Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment, Steve Harvey tried to teach women how to think like a man to establish a good romantic relationship. But you can also take the theory and apply it to the workplace. Sometimes to get ahead in the corporate world you need to know how to play like the big boys.
It’s not that you have to become one of the boys, but it helps to understand how the men in your field think, especially if you are in male-dominated industry.
Men complain that women are too emotional on the job; that they take criticism to heart and are unable to separate the business from the personal. “Men assume that the presence of emotion means you’re not thinking, because the male brain is not wired to be able to process those emotions and those thoughts together at the same time as easily, so you kind of have to shut down emotion in order to think clearly. Women can be processing a strong emotion and thinking clearly at the same time. Our brains are actually wired specifically to do that,” Shaunti Feldhahn, author of The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace, tells The Globe & Mail.
Here are 11 ways for you to think more “like a man” at the office, while never letting them forget you’re a savvy businesswoman.
