New Work has been one of the most colourful buzzwords in the business world for several years now. However, the term is rarely understood as it was originally intended. A trip to Michigan in the early 1980s.

SAP recently announced that it would be disbanding its joint leadership – as had Oracle, Deutsche Bank, Salesforce and others before them. Immediately following this announcement, the co-CEO model was declared to be dead. The crux of the matter wasn’t the model itself, though, but rather our idea of what a (co)-CEO should be.

“Women in IT” – a topic which gains momentum on days like this. Inequality, stereotypes or lower salaries are keywords we immediately think of. While they are important to acknowledge, they’re only one side of the medal of “Women in IT”. In fact, IT would not have been possible without women. A brief look at history and what it teaches us.