Green Is the New Black - the Golf Green, That Is.
Saturday March 1, 2008
You're a professional woman who has worked very, very hard to get ahead. You're in the office early, leave late, and you've made your share of personal sacrifices for your career. Yet you feel you're not quite there yet and you don't know why.
Maybe you need to be working less, and playing more. Playing golf.
Women lag behind men on the fairway, and perhaps its because we haven't realized what they know - playing golf is good for your career. Over six million golfers are top management executives and according to Barron's, "a full 80% of that number agreed that the game of golf is an important business development tool."
Want more reasons why you should think of taking up golf if you're intent on rising to the top? Here's one - women who break the grass ceiling are in a better position to break the glass ceiling.
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Comments
The ability to play golf is a huge leg up for women who want to get ahead, be it to break the glass ceiling, or to establish their own businesses.
It’s not even just the ability to play the game. Golfers will tell you that understanding and following the etiquette of golf is as much a part of the ambiance as the actual hitting of the ball. Further, once the round is completed, it will likely be one’s command of the game’s etiquette that is remembered, even longer than her swing or her score.
Of all the things I learned from my father — a man who has never understood women’s issues — golf is among the most important. Ironically, if anyone had ever told him it would help his daughter get ahead in business, this man of the “greatest generation” would have dismissed the very idea.
That’s funny. I’ve been golfing with a group of 12 women for the third season now and didn’t find out what they did for a living until the 2nd season. My point is, and we may not be the norm, that we got together for fun and to get AWAY from work. I’m sure if we were golfing with men, everything would be told before we even got to the first hole.