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By\u00a0Geoff Colvin<\/a><\/p>\n

Increasingly, men will need to learn this skill in order to be successful leaders.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s most striking about the 15 women in our new ranking of the World\u2019s Greatest Leaders<\/a> is how strongly they exemplify a new model of leadership. It\u2019s a model in which leaders must influence a wide range of groups over which they have no direct authority, while those groups typically command much power of their own through their access to information and their ability to communicate with practically anyone. That kind of world demands a new kind of leadership, and while plenty of men on the list have mastered it, every one of the women has done it. And that\u2019s no surprise.<\/p>\n

Am I really saying that women on average are just better at this kind of leadership? Yes, that\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. Many of the women on this list hold no direct authority over anyone. Johnetta Elzie promoting peaceful protest in Ferguson, Missouri, human rights activist Beatrice Mtetwa in Zimbabwe, leadership apostle Frances Hesselbein \u2013 none of them can be effective by giving orders.<\/p>\n

Even the two women on the list who do have formal power over large numbers of people \u2013 General Motors CEO Mary Barra<\/a> and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf <\/a>\u2013 achieved their greatest effectiveness by influencing others. Barra had to deal with the faulty ignition switch crisis, Sirleaf with the Ebola epidemic, both of which required the cooperation of many constituencies.<\/p>\n

Extensive research shows how women are better suited to this kind of leadership. They\u2019re better than men at empathy \u2013 sensing the thoughts and feelings of others and responding in some appropriate way. They value reciprocal relationships more highly than men do. Even at early ages, the way girls talk is much more cooperative and collaborative than the way boys talk; girls show more concern for fairness than boys do. There\u2019s no need to debate whether these differences are innate or learned; they\u2019re clearly both. And in a world that favors leadership based on skills of personal interaction rather than on authority, women have a head start.<\/p>\n

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