Men, Women: A Tale of Two Brains for Business

man woman brainWhat brain science tells us about how to work better together.

By Sandi Smith Leyva
The Accountant’s Accelerator

We need to acknowledge that in the tax and accounting workplace, women do not understand men, and men do not understand women. It happens in dating, so it should not be a surprise when it happens at work.

This isn’t a new topic. But what we’re doing now is not working, or it’s working at a glacial pace. We actually lost ground during the recession years and are now going backwards. The statistics are even worse in small firms, where 80 percent of the talent pool are women but only 12 percent are partners.

Luckily, we now know dozens of reasons why and have hundreds of tools and skill builders to help.

Here are just a few revelations from emerging brain science: