In 2013, Whole Foods posted $12.9 billion in net sales. This was over $4 billion more than in 2009. Since 1999, with the exception of the Great Recession year of 2008, Whole Foods has posted identical store sales growth rates of at least 4% annually. Most years have seen growth rates of at least 7% over the previous year, while 2004 saw 15% growth.
What attracts the media to woman-on-woman (WOW) bullying is the fact that women are targeted at a higher rate by female bullies (71%) than by male bullies (46%). Yes, women are crueler to women than they are to men, and that must be explained. But donât forget that 60% of all bullies are men.
Of course, to say that women should stick to certain behaviors because of their gender is unfairly restrictive. I think male and female leadership styles are becoming more similar [as] men and women's lives become more similar, and organizations achieve a better balance between women and men, Helgesen says.