As an engineer, Leah Busque, founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, said she’s always worked primarily around men.
“For me, it’s never something I’ve focused on but it definitely is there and is an issue,” Busque told HuffPost Live at Davos on Saturday.
Busque said she regularly thinks about how she can encourage women at her own company to take on leadership roles and grow as employees.
“I’ve had some very strong female role models, so I think that’s an important thing,” she added.
Busque also said that a business leader, it’s important to consider the quality of the lives you’re curating for workers.
“I believe there’s been a slippery slope of new companies that have formed in the name of on demand services … that maybe aren’t having as much of a focus as they should on the worker,” Busque said.
Below, live updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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“Success can become a catalyst for failure,” he said.
McKeown said leaders at Davos have experience with plateauing after achieving professional success. To avoid that, McKeown said, people must find a way to expand their contribution without doing more.
“The whole idea is about doing less, but better,” he said.
“In some sense, we’re the next generation of banks,” Smith said, noting you wouldn’t put your data in a place you don’t trust just like you wouldn’t deposit your money at a bank you don’t feel is stable.
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HuffPost reports:
Emma Watson followed up her September 2013 HeForShe address with another equally impassioned speech — this time at the World Economic Forum.
On Jan. 23, the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador took the stage in Davos, Switzerland to speak about the HeForShe campaign, the influence it has had on her own life and the new initiative Impact 10x10x10. “Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented — their potential astonishingly untapped,” she told the crowd.
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Based on their research, Keller and Grise said companies should aim to transform by evaluating their purpose and looking to their employees.
“Can they understand [they’re purpose]? Can they articulate it?” Grise said.
Keller said she is seeing more mission statements that don’t aim to describe what a company does, but why a company does what it does.
“It can’t just be a tag line,” Grise said. “You have to really live it.”
“Today you can’t stop transforming, you can’t. You won’t survive in today’s environment,” Grise said, noting she and Keller think transformation can come about through a sense of purpose.
Grise said millennials entering the workforce today are “looking for more than creating products and services, they’re looking for creating products and services for well-being.”
“It’s about a sense of meaning, too, like ‘what I do matters every day,'” Keller added.
