There’s a buzz in the air about Kirk Snyder’s new book The G Quotient: Why Gay Executives are Excelling as Leaders… And What Every Manager Needs to Know. I am very curious about this quotient and wondering if it applies in the adult webmaster world. Just found this event listing and it’s the third time this week I have seen this book mentioned, so I take that as a sign. Here’s the skinny:

THURSDAY MARCH 15, 5:30 PM…

Kirk Snyder, Author, “The G Quotient: Why Gay Executives Are Excelling As Leaders… And What Every Manager Needs to Know” Kirk Snyder, USC Business School lecturer and author of The Lavender Road to Success, will be discussing his new book, The G Quotient at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco. It’s an interesting topic for anyone who manages people, or for anyone interested in LGBT issues in the workplace. The book is based on a five-year study into the beliefs and behavior of more than 3,000 working professionals across major economic sectors. As a result, Snyder identified a new paradigm for successful business leadership — “The G Quotient” — that generates 35% higher levels of employee engagement, job satisfaction, and workplace morale across a variety of fields and industries. In other words, Snyder found that there are certain leadership qualities that are more commonly present in openly gay and lesbian managers than their straight counterparts; this book examines those qualities, and identifies larger implications to be drawn from them. The G Quotient was named to Harvard Business Review’s 2006 Reading List, and Snyder has spoken on this topic at a number of business schools across the country. http://www.commonwealthclub.org/mlf/index.php#snyder

If you make it to the event, and stick around for the Q n A, flag me down and say hi. I will be the one asking “Do you think that the Q Quotient applies to entrepreneurs, and specifically adult webmasters, too, or is that stretching the theory a bit?” Of course, the author will probably say he has no idea about he adult scene. But if you are reading this you no doubt do. So, if you have an informed opinion, please post a comment here. I would love to hear some great stories of lesbian and gay webmasters doing amazing things to bolster the theory that they are outperforming their straight counterparts. Until then, it’s an interesting theory, no?