I am back at my desk this week.
Writing is a solitary business. And I might add, writing a book is a super-solitary business.
I have been spending so much time in my mind lately that I am not sure where my body has been.
A friend of mine was walking in the centre of Munich on Tuesday and saw somebody who looked like me.
He e-mailed me to let me know. I read his message and had to think for a minute…was that really me? …Had my body been wandering across the Channel and towards the Alps?
Although I have been feeling kind of lonely today (the bird outside my window is still in its nest… which is reassuring), I am very excited about my book.
I particularly like the part in which I explore new leadership styles and their impact on communications.
And I got a lot of great content at the Arab Internal Women’s Forum conference in Washington last week.
Thirteen per cent of the companies in the Middle East are owned by women. They are usually bigger than male-owned businesses and employ between 10 and 50 people. Research found that they use technology and on-line communication more than male-owned companies. It also discovered that female managers treat employees like family and have a much more democratic and participative leadership style than their male counterparts in the region.
This is one of the new leadership phenomena I will be exploring in my book.
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