Nina Nets It Out
Leadership is not the end point; its task is to create an environment in which other leaders can flourish. Let the conversation begin!
Where are the Women Gurus?
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 Thomas L...
Raise Money and Your Profile
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,...
Professional BusinessWomen of California
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 upward...
Conceding to Win
A Sign Originally uploaded by fensterbme We all like to win. After all, be it in personal life or business, it’s better to win than to lose. The trick is to recognize the best path to victory. And often, this path is not always as clear as one might think. In the...
What Leaders Can Learn from Marion
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...
I’ve Learned Enough…Ha!
One thing that I have learned in life is that you never stop learning. Just when you finish college, there are advanced degrees that beckon. And just when you finish an advanced degree, there’s books, articles speeches, etc. talking about “What They Don’t Teach You at...
Women Speakers Where Are You?
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...
Books, Memes and Me
Blogging has been an interesting adventure, bringing me into contact with people and ideas that I may never have otherwise encountered. One such concept is the meme -- where one blogger discloses some piece of information and then "tags" another, asking them to do the...
What Leaders Can Learn from “This” Woman
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...
Women Leaders I Admire
To be clear about this, there are also many male leaders that I admire. As an executive, I look to both men and women in leadership positions for inspiration and learning opportunities. When I think of leaders that I admire, a few well-known names definitely come to...
What Leaders Can Learn From Angelina
One thing that you may or may not have noticed in this series is that all of the women featured are known by their first name. First there was Britney and then Madonna. And now this is about "Angelina". They need no other introduction. One of the most effective things...
It Takes a Village
1 Choose Friend Originally uploaded by PersonalSpaceInvader While this expression is often attributed to Hillary Clinton’s book about her vision for children in America, in all actuality it was the title of a children’s book a couple of years prior to Hillary’s book....
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