“Why Men Need Women” (New York Times, 7/21/13) provides data and observations of significance to every business. While you can’t affect the number and gender of your employees’ siblings, there are other insights here that could help you increase collaboration, generosity, and fair treatment of employees. Here are two top lessons:

• Women in top management positions can increase collaboration, motivation, and innovation.
• Assembling diverse groups of people, who must rely on each other for success, builds understanding, acceptance, and cooperation.

Any business can utilize both of these for immediate gains.