50% of ‘business skills’ is just knowing how to interrupt and be interrupted in business meetings.
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Women interrupting is a massively different dynamic.
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What's different?
I suspect there's a power / empathy calculus here at work or perhaps some other dichotomy at work
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More than a few men are very quick to take offense when they perceive women have interrupted them, regardless of their relative positions in the corporate hierarchy. Once someone has taken offense, the level of cooperation goes downhill, often permanently.
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Men interrupting men: perceived as threat
Men interrupting women: perceived as entitlement/right
Women interrupting women: perceived as emasculation
Women interrupting women: perceived as a sort of betrayal
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Well summarized, although correct the 3rd point to read "Women interrupting men"
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