Companies for Executive Women
Years ago, Doug Fisher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s software and services group, was asked to speak at an internal forum about how to advance women. Facing the group, the Portland, OR-based leader shared his point of view on what it would take to move the needle of women’s advancement at the tech giant.
Today, Doug politely declines to share what those suggestions were. Suffice it to say, however, they would have been “entirely counterproductive” had they been implemented, he admits. Luckily for him, a female colleague spoke up immediately, and, wisely, he listened. “It was a poignant moment in my career,” he recalls. “Sometimes you have to pause and acknowledge that, as a male in the workplace, I’m not naturally the expert…
