{"id":2975,"date":"2011-10-20T20:03:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2011-10-20T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:05:49","slug":"thursday-night-bad-hair-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/10\/20\/thursday-night-bad-hair-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Bad hair day"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I admit I have a Google query that flags me when someone posts soemthing on the interweb with my name on it.. I did it during the Colony days to see what people thought of the show.. .. or… more honestly.. what people thought of me on the show. Anyway never turned it off. Most of the time it gives me mention of talks I’ve done.. which I already know about.. occasionally it turns up something surprising … like today it turned up this<\/a>..<\/p>\n

Here’s the text of that article<\/p>\n

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Does a bad hair day = a bad manager?<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Submitted by <\/span>Adrian Gaskell<\/span><\/a> MCMI on Thu, 20\/10\/2011 – 11:03<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Towards the back end of last year <\/span>I<\/span><\/a> wrote about a <\/span>study<\/span><\/a> investigating the influence our appearance has on our success at job interviews. \u00a0The research suggested that the prettiness of the candidate had a big impact on their success at interview, with the rate of success dependant upon the sex and attractiveness of those doing the hiring.<\/span><\/p>\n

This followed previous research from <\/span>Kent University<\/span><\/a> proposing an ideal ‘face’ for management. \u00a0The study found that appearance was as crucial as attitude and looked at which characteristics were seen to be best for male managers and female managers.<\/span><\/p>\n

For a male manager, a pronounced brow and forehead were found to be trusted more, while for women, thin eyebrows, wider eyes and fuller lips made up the face of a future inspirational leader.<\/span><\/p>\n

What risks do we take by employing such stereotyping however, be they conscious or unconscious? \u00a0Have a look at the photo below. \u00a0It’s of a man called John Cohn.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He’s an IBM fellow and all round inspirational chap. \u00a0See this <\/span>article<\/span><\/a> for some of his thoughts on leadership. \u00a0At first glance though, would you believe him to be an inspiring thinker? \u00a0Does he fit the identikit manager our subconcious forms for us?<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, such prejudices are sadly commonplace. \u00a0For instance <\/span>research earlier<\/span><\/a> this year revealed how our weight impacts our earning potential. \u00a0Likewise <\/span>height has been linked to earning<\/span><\/a>, with taller men found to earn more than us vertically challenged ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an age when we should be striving to get the very best talent working in our teams, are our in built prejudices hindering the chances of otherwise exceptional candidates?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

LOL !..\u00a0\u00a0 Bad hair day ?!.. every day is a bad hair day for me… but I make do.. in fact.. the only reason I was told I got the job on the Colony was that I had ‘weird hair’.. I know I’ve talked about this here once before when I was called out in another article (cited above) for looking deranged. .. but I actually don’t mind the way I look.. would I like to be handsome and youthful. . sure.. but since I can’t change that.. I\u00a0 don’t mind looking weird and crazy…..\u00a0 especially if it gets people to listen to me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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OK, I admit I have a Google query that flags me when someone posts soemthing on the interweb with my name on it.. I did it during the Colony days to see what people thought of the show.. .. or… more honestly.. what people thought of me on the show. Anyway never turned it off. … Continue reading Thursday night – Bad hair day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bad-hair-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}