It seems as though Christine Quinn, a Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City, likes to yell. According to The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, she once screamed at a city housing advocate, complete with table pounding and a Bambi<\/em> reference. She is described as “controlling, temperamental and surprisingly volatile, with a habit of hair-trigger eruptions of unchecked, face-to-face wrath.” And Quinn readily admits to it: \u201cI don\u2019t think being pushy or bitchy or tough, or however you want to characterize it, is a bad thing. New Yorkers want somebody who\u2019s going to get things done.”<\/p>\n OK. So would the Times<\/em> have covered this story differently if the leader in question was a man? The internet isn’t so sure. The Atlantic Wire<\/em> has a nice roundup<\/a> of differing opinions from female writers. The general feeling, at least if all the facts are true, is that Quinn is, well, a politician in the tradition of other scream-y politicians. But does this make her actions acceptable? Not according to The American Prospect’s<\/em> Paul Waldman<\/a>, who acknowledges the gender issue, but ultimately says it’s not the important part of the story here. He concludes: “If you treat people around you abusively, especially if they’re people who are lower in the hierarchy than you, then you’re just not a good person.” And, he points out, being a jerk in the business world “invariably produces sub-par performance.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n STICK TO MATH<\/a><\/p>\n \n While CFOs are increasingly a part of running company operations, a new survey of CEOs indicates that they may not be entirely comfortable with this arrangement. More than half of CEOs questioned said that their CFO would not make a good COO, and only 17% said that those already taking on some organizational responsibilities would be good in an official COO position. There are two main reasons for this disconnect: the difficulty in seeing CFOs outside a traditional accounting role; and the feeling (correct or not) that they don’t have the right people skills.\n <\/p>\n \n WHAT INNOVATION FORGOT<\/a><\/p>\n \n Around 750 million people use condoms, but they’ve pretty much stayed the same for decades. That’s why the Gates Foundation is promising $100,000 in funding, with the potential of up to $1 million in total, to the person or company that can best rethink both the male and female prophylactics. When it comes to male condoms, the foundation is looking for a product that finds “some way to increase sensation as to get men to wear them more often.” For female condoms, simplicity and ease of use are key. For all of the above, “ideas that prove too expensive for widespread use in the developing world, or those that don’t do the job of preventing pregnancy or disease transmission will be dismissed right off the bat.”\n <\/p>\n \n BONUS BITS:<\/a><\/p>\n \n The Anatomy of a Parking Sign You Can Actually See (Atlantic Cities)<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n It seems as though Christine Quinn, a Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City, likes to yell. According to The New York Times, she once screamed at a city housing advocate, complete with table pounding and a Bambi reference. She is described as “controlling, temperamental and surprisingly volatile, with a habit of hair-trigger eruptions of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sorry, CFOs: CEOs Don’t Think You’d Make Good COOs (CFO)<\/a><\/h4>\n
Bill Gates Will Give You $100,000 to Make a Better Condom (Mashable)<\/a><\/h4>\n
You Can’t Get There From Here<\/a><\/h4>\n
Imagine Cities Without Highways (Fast Company)<\/a>
Should Heavy Airline Passengers Pay More? (CNN Travel)<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/img><\/a>
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