The challenge of being a female leader

As a leader, no matter man or woman, he/she takes more responsibilities and stress than others. Being a female leader, the challenge is to forget being lady or madam, just remember you are a person.

The weaknesses of women are vanity, jealousy, suspicion, hard up for ideas. If you want to be a successful leader, please have to forget your gender. Men and women are equal in the world and also in the business. You may get things easier done by displaying the best part of a lady, but this can not last for ever.

For a long term, business is business and all depends on the knowledge, experience and innovation.

If you can not forget your gender, then you will put your weak points in front of your staffs, your business partners. How do you want them treat you? -- a professional business partner? -- a real lady?

Trailblazer-- invest for future

I stop the blog for more than one year. During this year, I keep reading and thinking, but stop writing. Now when I re-read my previous paragraphs, I gain the passion for writing again. (Also sorry, found many spell mistakes there)

The year looks like to be end with a tragedy. In states, people lost the job in Wall street; banks and investing companies bankrupt. In Europe, many banks put the fund together for self saving. In China, people talk and hate the stock market-- dropping down from 64oo point to 2000 point. We ask where is the way for economy?

Meanwhile, the e-commerce industry is also experiencing a frozen year. Advertisers are decreasing the marketing budget; the industry needs to think of innovation for keeping growth. We ask where is the way for e-commerce?

How can we fight against our competitors, who don't ask for the entry barriers to advertiser? How can we cooperate our advertisers, who do not have knowledge of e-commerce and doubt it? How can we deal the situation-- enforcing the strength by technology innovation; but in another hand no one really cares for which kind of technology you use.

I don't see the change for this industry in China in the last year. The only good thing is local Chinese companies start to ask what e-commerce can do for them. We still need about three years to educate this market.

The most difficult thing is to bring up the concept-- educate person, educate the market, educate your partners and competitors. The trailblazer ( most are foreign companies, who are very successful in foreign markets and now work in China market) automatically take this responsibility. This is kind of investment for future. But who will compensate them for this invisible investment, the local government? China government? or the developed market in future?