Grant Gracia Martore（格雷西亚•马托利），Gannett（甘尼特，美国最大的报业连锁集团）新任CEO，财富500强公司的17位女性CEO之一，她亲口说：“我是一个异类”。另外一位是Ginni Rometty（吉尼•罗曼提），她在2011年成为IBM的掌门人，而这之前她已经在IBM工作了30年。与Ginni Rometty一样，60岁的Martore的职业生涯基本上都奉献给了一家公司。她1985年就加入了甘尼特，加入时只是一名财务助理，在这里，她发挥着自己的聪明才智，在经济和名望上也收获颇丰。
因此，当知道她是一个保守派时，不免让人吃惊；尤其是当这一点成为她的成功秘诀时，更为震惊了。当Sheryl Sandberg（雪莉•桑德伯格，Facebook首席运营官）和她的拥护者们鼓励女性也“坐在会议桌旁”，参与“举手表决”时，Martore，这个职场女性的异类，直言不讳地建议女性还是保持淑女风范，通过埋头苦干一步步晋升。以下是Martore和我们一起分享她成为女性职场领袖的8个成功秘诀：
专注于手头的工作
我相信努力干好自己的本职工作一定有用。我发现，如果我尽最大的努力把工作做好——而不是担心接下来的晋升——这个公司一定有人会发现你，并不断委重任于你。每当我说“没问题，我了解过这个领域”时，毫无疑问，接下来一定会有新的挑战奇迹般地降临到我身上，这代表我又有新的任务，也意味着新的机会来了。
找到一家真正任人唯贤的公司
无论你是否出自名门望族，也无论你拥有怎样的学历，重要的是你对待工作的态度，以及你的工作绩效。谁都可以把工作做到最好，关键是有没有认真对待——因此，工作做得好坏跟性别没有一点关系。这对我来说是个绝好的机会，因为我轻松摆脱了一些束缚，只需专注于自己的本职工作，就可以在公司不断得到提拔，而不用担心有人会说“女人在公司做不了这个”或者“哼！现在我不得不来破除这种阻隔”。
看公司的组织结构图
我最初在银行工作，但那份工作过于单调。辞职后我便开始找下一份工作，这时候我发现了甘尼特，我很好奇是谁在领导这个公司大大小小的业务：这个公司的重要岗位、高级管理层和董事会成员中是否有很多女性和少数民族的人呢？
一个公司的组织上下必须充满智慧，否则就不起作用。不仅因为这样做是正确的，还因为这样做对公司有好处。现在的公司明白了人才往往来自各个阶层，错过这51%的人群意味着将错过那些极具天赋的人。
学会厚脸皮
如果想成功，那么你就必须得厚着脸皮。我在职业生涯的初期就学会了这一点，而且到现在仍然很受用。
告别你的工作舒适带
1995年，我的工作被调整为负责处理股东关系。在此之前，我的工作一直是面向公司内部的，而这个工作则要求我必须面向公司外部，这意味着我的工作将直接影响外部股价的波动，工作绩效要受所有人的监督。这使我不得不放弃我的工作舒适带，延伸到自己不熟悉的领域，同时，我也拥有了从全新视角认识公司的机会。这些让我学到了日后成为CFO以及公司总裁和CEO的必备技能。
参与公司的运营
女性一定要担任公司的重要运营角色。一般公司注重领导层的多样性时，留给女性的职位多数是人力资源或公司非实际运营的一些岗位。女性无法接近公司的财务或实际运营领域，而这些领域往往是最容易诞生CEO的地方。
然而，我并非建议女性都不要进入人力资源领域，如今，人力资源已经成为公司最重要的部门之一。任何知道该如何变革或走向未来的公司，都清楚人才在其中发挥着无可比拟的重要作用。
好好挑选你的老公
我有两个孩子，一个28岁，一个23岁。我认为我是一个非常负责的母亲，这特别离不开全力支持我的丈夫。他是一个小公司的CEO，也有着非常成功的事业。对孩子的抚养，我们都尽好了各自的职责，而且配合相当默契——当一方需要在某个阶段更多地专注于工作时，另一方就多付出一些在孩子身上。
了解你的工作
我对新闻已经完全上瘾了。5岁时我就开始每天读《波士顿全球报》，我非常喜欢《名利场》这本书。当然，我也喜欢福布斯，因为我是一个商人，我不可能不喜欢它。
Grant Gracia Martore, the new CEO of Gannett, this: “I’m an anomaly.” For starters, she’s one of just 17 women with a CEO title at the top 500 companies. And like Ginni Rometty, who spent 30 years at IBM before being named chief in 2011, Martore, 60, built her career making deals and decisions, revenues and a reputation largely at one organization. She started at Gannett in 1985 as assistant treasurer.
So it’s a something of a shocker to find she leans old-school, particularly when it comes to her recipe for success. While Sheryl Sandberg and her acolytes are pushing women to “sit at the table” and “raise your hand,” Martore, the anomaly, is a straight-talking advocate of the Nice Girl virtues of moving up the ladder by putting your head down and doing your job. And there’s more: Here, the eight steps to Martore’s secret sauce for women to get on the road to the C-Suite:
Focus On The Job At Hand
I believe in putting my head down and focusing on the job I had. I found that if I did the very best job I could–and didn’t worry about what my next four moves were going to be–that there were people in the organization who would take notice and add more responsibility. Each time I got to the point of, ‘OK, now I know this area,’ boom!, a new challenge would miraculously come along, a new responsibility and a new opportunity.
Sign On To A True Meritocracy
It doesn’t matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that’s who the focus is on–and it definitely doesn’t matter if I am a woman or a man. That kind of opportunity allowed me to be unfettered in my ability to take on responsibility, rise in the organization and not to be worried about things like ‘Gee, women can’t do this in this organization’ or ‘Ugh, now I have to crash through this barrier.’
Look At The Org Chart
Banking, where I started, wasn’t a particularly diverse environment. It was still the time of ‘The first woman to do this’ and ‘The first woman to do that.’ Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various businesses within the organization: Are there a lot of women and minorities in important, operational roles, senior management and the board of directors?
It has to be a top-down mentality or it won’t work. Not just because it’s the right thing to do but because it is good business. Companies understand now that great talent comes from a myriad of places, and to not look at 51% of the population means that you are excluding some incredibly talented people.
Grow A Thick Skin
If you’re going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It’s something I developed early in my career and it just goes with the territory.
Say Goodbye To Your Comfort Zone
In 1995 I was asked to take on investor relations responsibilities. My role up to the point had always been a very internal one, and being in investor relations you have to be very externally oriented. You have to worry that if you do something it could have an impact on the stock price. Everybody knows what you’ve done. It really required me to stretch beyond my comfort zone and I had the opportunity to learn the company in a new way. That gave me some of the skills necessary to become the CFO and ultimately president and CEO.
Operate In Operations
Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they’re mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions. Women tend not to come up in the finance or operations side of the business, which is typically where CEOs come from.
I’m not suggesting, however, that women shouldn’t go into HR; HR is one of the most important roles right now. Any company that understands how they’re going to need to transform their company or move into the future understands the incredible importance of talent.
Marry A Great Guy
I have two 2 kids, 28 and 23. I think I’ve been a very dedicated mother to those children but I also have an incredibly supportive spouse who has a great career of his own as CEO of a small company. We have always shared responsibility of our children. There have been times I’ve had to be more focused on work issues and he has stepped up–and vice-versa.
Know Your Business
I am a total news junkie. I started reading The Boston Globe every day at age 5. I love Vanity Fair and, of course, FORBES because I’m a business person and I can’t go without reading it.
