Keyshia Cole – - Doing Business In A Man’s World

Keyshia Cole the R&B singer, the soul singer, the rapper, the artist, the businesswoman. The twenty-something Oakland, California native grew up on the hard side of the track but let that rough beginning make her the woman she is today. Keyshia is a serious businesswoman who launched her own record company with one rapper who she firmly believed in and sold her idea to her producer. When Keyshia was asked how was it that she could juggle all of the things she’s got going on and be so successful, she replied in a matter-of-fact fashion that she was “just doing what I gotta do because as a woman, for me to be taken seriously, I gotta do business the way a man would do it.”

The business world has long been primarily a man’s world where very few women could play and be taken seriously. Women were relegated to the office of secretary or errand girl. Being a CEO of a company was something that was considered absurd for females. Nowadays, women are CEO’s, CFO’s, corporate president’s and entrepreneurs. Women are definitely making their marks in the businessworld. Keyshia, like many other professional businesswomen, is signing contracts, making deals, hiring and firing staff all while producing and maintaining a product (or service) that keeps revenue coming in and investors happy.

Businesswomen are definitely a force to be reckoned with, but the question is…do you have to do business the way a man does just to be taken seriously? What do you think?

Come back tomorrow. I’ll tell you what I think.