How can a movie with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson be anything but heart warming and wonderful? Now, add Google as the venue and a real learning opportunity exists! 
Every now and then high tech seems to have taken over the world - no, not just the world, but the hearts and minds of mere mortals who used to operate with common sense and the ability to relate with human beings.
"The Internship" reminds us that there is still a need for people who know how to build relationships with people to work in the cyber world. (Wo)man cannot communicatie by technology alone.
So, what does this have to do with women entrepreneurs? Absolutely everything!
Women must utilize their inborn skills for building relationships, the old-fashioned way, by caring for others. Spending time learning about others so one understands what makes them tick is critical to successful sales, successful target marketing, and successful relationships. No matter what Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and any other tech company or search engine comes up with it will never be able to compete with taking the time and effort, as well as care, to get to know another person well enough to know what they truly need, want and wish for in life.
As a business coach, I hear regularly from women in business that they are asked to hold back and speak less, and to follow their managers advice to keep the lid on new ideas. Rather than build healthy relationships by speaking truth to power, a phrase that dates back to the Quakers meaning that love endures and overcomes and hatred destroys, too many women in business are asked to squash their desire to build relationships in order to play corporate politics. Office politics are one of the main reasons that women leave corporations in droves and decide on launching their own businesses. Office politics in many cases are no better than ordinary gossip, and contrary to popular opinion men engage 55% to a women's 46% in gossiping according to a June 2013 report by BMRB Research. Women know that to do well in business one must get to know and appreciate the people one works with. Social interaction happens best in person and most often by expressing care and/or concern.
Both Vaughn and Wilson take this bonding to a new level in the movie, and although neither one of them is female they certainly display all the characteristics more commonly viewed as feminine.
To better make my point, I'll explain that the focus of the film is for accepted interns to earn a position at Google by competing as teams. Vaughn and Wilson, as sales guys, basically have trouble spelling technology, but what they do know is how to build a team. Sometimes it is with hugs and long conversations to get at the bottom of a problem, but in the end, the team triumphs and earns the privilege of working for Google. (Sorry, should have said spoiler alert)!
So why do I say I see the value of women's leadership in this plot? Simply because as much as Google is known as a techy place to work the value of human interaction and relationship building is not lost on anyone supposedly working for the company. As important as individual achievement is, so is the value of the team building process. Teams can only be built by people who take the time to care about the members. Women are natural team builders and must use these skills regardless of what they are otherwise told.
As our world becomes more and more determined to divide us by keeping our heads down looking at our phones and our ears covered with headphones, I believe it is contingent on women to make sure that future generations do not lose out on social interaction and personal relationships.
The most important contribution any person can make in the world is to let another person know that they are valued. Women are naturals at this and that continues to be why they will be the leaders going forward.
