The Definitive Book of Body Languagewho continually 'bow' to the management are labelled with
derogatory name-tags such as 'bootlickers', 'crawlers' and
'brown-nosers'.He's a Big Man Around TownDespite what it may be politically correct to believe about
height, studies convincingly show that taller people are more
successful, healthier and live longer than short people. Dr
Bruce Ellis, Head of Experimental Psychology at the Univer-
sity of Canterbury in New Zealand, found that taller men also
have greater reproductive success than shorter men, not only
because increased testosterone levels are linked to tallness but
also because women choose men who are taller than they are
as partners. Taller men are seen as more protective and can
pass this advantage on through their genes. Men prefer shorter
women because it gives men the apparent height advantage.
The shorter you are the more likely it is that you will be
interrupted by men. One of our clients, a 5 feet 1 inch (1.55m)
female senior manager in a predominately male accounting
firm, complained that she was continually being interrupted
by her peers at management meetings and it was rare for her
to present her ideas fully or even finish her sentences. We
devised a strategy that required her to stand and go to the
coffee table and, when she returned to her seat, remain stand-
ing as she spoke and presented her thoughts. She was amazed
at the difference it made to how she was received. While she
can't use the coffee routine every time, it allowed her to see
how, by simply adjusting her height perspective, she could gain
more authority.
You always see taller men with shorter
women but rarely the reverse.