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Seen on Twitter, sounds about right to me: RT @cjc "Male Executive Late to Meeting" -- headline you'd never see
by cjbprime 12y ago
Seen on Twitter, sounds about right to me:
RT @cjc "Male Executive Late to Meeting" -- headline you'd never see
- 001sky 12y agosrsly this is like a "mean girls" at work post For men: being late is a status symbol For women: OMG lets gossip about her
- coldtea 12y ago>For men: being late is a status symbol Really? For who exactly is being late a "status symbol"? Maybe for someone who doesn't need the deals and everybody else is dependent upon him. But even those kind of people are frequenty marked as "arseholes" if they are constantly and arrogantly late.
- dllthomas 12y agoThe idea is that being late is a credible signal that you have high enough status to show up late and get away with it. It only works if you get away with it, of course. It's disrespectful in any event.
- jmromer 12y agoThe thing about being fashionably late is you have to be fashionable about it. Meyer apparently disclosed to someone that she was late because she had "fallen asleep." She wasn't late because she had, say, decided to take an impromptu meeting with some power player, something you could plausibly write off as benefitting the company. And ultimately, that's what this piece was about -- an executive's performance as an executive: >"If it were an investor meeting, a board meeting or a potential acquisition, I am sure she or someone from her team would have woken her up,” said one top executive in attendance. > “It is another instance where she demonstrated that she doesn’t understand the value of clients, ad revenue or agencies,” the person added"
- dllthomas 12y agoCertainly.
- joelrunyon 12y agoLarry Page late to meeting might be one though.
- cjbprime 12y agoI haven't personally noticed any articles about Larry Page being late to meetings. Have you? Do you think it's more likely that he is not late and never suffers jet lag, or that it's not reported when he is?
- refurb 12y agoDon't act like Marisa doesn't revel in all the attention she gets. She loves it.
- anigbrowl 12y agoIn Meyer's case it seems to be part of a pattern. Also, it's a bit notable because she recently fired Yahoo's CMO and took on his portfolio, but has missed several face-to-faces with CEOs of major advertisers. I don't think it's a gender issue at all.
- coldtea 12y agoIf it was a CEO of a large company in major need of ad money, and had blown a meeting with ad executives, yes, you'd very much see a headline about it. Actually, one of the oldest lores of IT is the famous story of a male executive (Gary Kildall of Digital Research) failing to appear on a meeting with IBM executives who would have made his company the supplier of the OS for the IBM PC. Plus, it's not like tons of profile pieces on Meyer, epspecially on her Google days, weren't written precicely because she is a woman in tech.
- dllthomas 12y agoIf it has to do with the PC, it's decades past "the oldest lores of IT" :-P
- coldtea 12y agoWell, the IT industry. Not much of an industry before then. I think their market cap in toto was below the Peeble watch today :-)
- dllthomas 12y agoA smaller industry, to be sure, but an industry (and a fairly important one) - albeit entirely B2B. DEC was founded in 1957 (PDP-1 in 1959, PDP-11 in 1970), and of course IBM was founded in 1911 from three companies each of which made things that were arguably "information technology" although I've no trouble with drawing the line somewhere substantially later than that.
- glomph 12y agoCould you link to a case where that has happened? Even in a similar industry?
- coldtea 12y agoDidn't I just devote a whole paragpraph for an exact case where that has happened?