One of the reasons Sandra Kurtzig succeeded in the male-dominated software industry was because she didn't accept the status quo. When she first started ASK, she refused to follow the rigid, hierarchical "male" approach to management and instead adopted a policy of being honest with employees, sharing information rather than withholding it, and keeping her office door almost always open.
This article was originally published in the March 2000 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Hero Worship.
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