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The other day I was chatting to a very good friend of mine that has developed her consultancy by focusing on developing leadership skills with women clients.

That led to a discussion on what leadership destructive traits, are common for both genders. This article attempts to highlight the common areas between the genders, and what traits are typically encountered in both.

A very old lady looked in the mirror one morning. She had three remaining strands of hair on her head, and being a positive soul, she said, "I think I'll braid my hair today." So she braided her three strands of hair and she had a great day.

Some days later, looking in the mirror that morning, preparing for her day, she saw that she had only two strands of hair remaining. "Hmm, two hairs... I fancy a centre parting today." She duly parted her two strands of hair, and as before, she had a great day.

Market-based activities are now recognised by governments, business and development agencies round the world as potential solutions to major sustainable development challenges – reducing poverty, enhancing livelihoods, ensuring community sustainability, protecting ecosystems, tackling climate change, as well as meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

Increasingly, the private sector is recognising an emerging business opportunity in designing or modifying business models specifically to address such issues. But to date this evolution has been slow, patchy and ad-hoc. And although many innovative pilot initiatives in the past have succeeded at a micro-level they have failed to achieve success at scaling-up.