The day I stopped following the male idea of power

“Who are your enemies?” I was asked this interview question throughout my entire career. And I’d always come up blank. Every time. No enemies. And when I failed to produce an impressive enemy list, the reaction was always the same: How can you claim to be competent if you haven’t made powerful enemies? I came to understand this enemy thing was rooted in the male idea of power. That men tend to see winning and power like this: For me to win, you need to lose. I came to realize that th...