Comment by jstarfish

Play to your leadership. Exceptions apply, but female bosses tend to appreciate averted crises more than male ones.

If your boss is male, let shit fail. You'll get hero points for responding to incidents.

A female boss will quickly suspect incompetence if things keep breaking (i.e. see how far half-assed DIY home repairs get you with your wife before she loses patience with you). Your hero points will come from mitigation.

This paradox comes up a lot in security. IME in this particular field the gender stuff is less relevant since everyone is paranoid. But when we run stuff up to C-levels, it's only the female execs and lawyers that really stop to consider possible issues-- the men just dismiss everything until it happens.