Get cocky to thrive, Oliver tells women

WOMEN should adopt male traits and show “a bit more cockiness” to get promoted, according to Jamie Oliver.

While men are happy to “push forward when they’ve got nothing to say”, women were more reticent, he said. “Most of my senior managers are women. The CEO [of the Jamie Oliver Group] will be a woman in the next five years,” he told Radio Times.

“I think women need to take a few things from men if they want to thrive, like a bit more cockiness and a bit more confidence, because they earn it,” he added.