But flirting was definitely out there as a tactic through which to get one's way - she had seen women in management positions use it to great effect with men in still more senior positions. She had seen women in rather more senior positions refusing to use it, and coming up against a wall of frustration and resistance as a result. She had seen men of all ranks using it as and when it suited them, merely as one choice within an armoury. And she'd wondered why the women hadn't expanded their repertoires in a similar way, to allow them other tactics besides flirting through which they could be effective.
Crying didn't count.
Carnivorous Cow wondered if anyone had ever studied the efficacy of flirting as a management tactic. It must work well enough at least often enough to provide its practitioners with reasons to continue with it, but she wondered if there were not other tactics that might be used to better effect that were simply not being attempted. Like clear, unambiguous communication. Though she accepted that the minute more than one gender was involved, such possibilities slipped into the domain of intricate statistical formulae, stochastic modelling and science fiction.
Still, it was a nice idea. And rather less effort than mastering Flirting For Beginners...