Share the Credit

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Orit Adato used her position as the head of the Women’s Corps in the Israeli Defense Forces to get more women into important positions. In this clip from January 2012, she explains that the key to her success was finding out what male generals needed to get done, fulfilling that need with competent females, and sharing the credit for this integration with the male generals. This approach, she says, allowed for change to take place that otherwise would not have happened.

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