by Nina | May 8, 2008 | Glass Ceiling, Nina Simosko, Women
Tom Davenport recently published a list of the Top 50 business gurus for the Wall Street Journal. The Top 5, measured in terms of Google hits, media mentions and academic citations were: Gary Hamel — leading strategy guru and author of Leading the Revolution...
by Nina | May 7, 2008 | Conferences, Glass Ceiling, Nina Simosko, Women
Let the bidding begin. . . Originally uploaded by MarSea According to the Department of Labor, women represent 46% of the labor force. Forty percent of women work in management, and interestingly, women accounted for 51% of all workers in the high-paying management,...
by Nina | May 2, 2008 | Conferences, Life Continuum, Nina Simosko, Women
This past week, I had the good fortune to attend the 19th Annual Conference of The Professional BusinessWomen of California conference. According to the organization, “The annual conference is PBWC’s main forum for women leaders to mentor and role model, foster...
by Nina | Apr 25, 2008 | Celebrities As Leaders, Nina Simosko, Women
Without question, we all strive to do the very best that we can. And, it probably goes without saying, that, to a large extent, we are limited only by our own capabilities. Be it singers, actors, athletes or even students, from a very early age, prodigies often make...
by Nina | Apr 18, 2008 | Leadership, Nina Simosko, Women
Simone Brummelhuis has an interesting post over at theNextWeb asking why there are so few senior women executives speaking at the various technology conferences that occur across the country each year. Out of the 200 speakers scheduled for the upcoming Web 2.0...
by Nina | Apr 11, 2008 | Celebrities As Leaders, Leadership, Nina Simosko, Women
Allow me to describe the early beginnings of a particular woman: She was born to unwed, teenage parents in the 1950s At birth, with her father away in the military, her mom moved away leaving her to live with her grandmother She was so poor that she often wore dresses...
