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Do I Really Need to Give up My Personal Values and Ethics in Business?
An 18 year old woman wants to “bring humanity to business” but doesn’t know how. More than 35 years later, and despite having no role models, she still hasn’t surrendered her values. Brigitte Baumann was told that a CEO must simply look after the bottom line. That’s...
The Elephant in the Gender Equality Room: Masculinity
By: Kaitlin Rattigan Just as women and girls are expected to follow ridiculous, degrading and constricting ideas of what it means to be feminine men and boys face, albeit different, but just as restricting expectations for what it means to be masculine. So, let’s talk...
Senate Women – A Glimpse of “Grait-ness”
Consider these New York Times headlines: Senators Near Fiscal Deal and Senate Women Lead Effort to Find Accord The current U.S. government impasse has been a grit-fest. It’s been like watching “Godzilla Meets King Kong” – two opposing beasts slugging it out to...
Mindfulness at Work: The Secret to Productivity and Reduced Stress
What is mindfulness and why do you care? Most importantly, can you do it in the middle of a busy life? Çan you practice mindfulness at work? Mindfulness is an ancient tradition that’s all the rage now. Time magazine’s cover promoted it last year and Harvard Business...
The Dollars and Sense of Women and Work
As a career coach and seminar leader, I’ve met hundreds of “stay-at-home mothers” who spend months—or even years—weighing the pros and cons of returning to work. Though the immediate assumption would be that these women can easily afford never to work again, I’ve...
The Key to Planning for Success in Business and in Life
By: Tammy Leigh Kahn Sometimes you can’t help but think of mistakes you’ve made, but here’s why you should let go of the past and make room for the present. As entrepreneurs, we all swing for the fences. Sometimes we hit a grand slam, sometimes it’s a single or a...
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Women and Power: Do We Get It?
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam There is a large space between having power and being powerful. Women have historically had a love hate relationship with power. Personally, I am one of them. In some situations in my corporate career, I was in positions of great...
10 Lessons Learned From One Year Of Being An Entrepreneur
By: Daisy Jing Originally published on Women 2.0 There’s a quote I love most, which is “when you see a successful person, you just see the success, not all the work and pain it takes them to get there”. It’s been an entire year since I pitched my idea at Women 2.0...
How to Stop Your Noisy Brain
In the past 20 years, some controversial research suggests that at any given moment, women have more activity in their brains than men. The corpus collosum that connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain is larger in women, allowing for more movement across...
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Research Says: Executive Committees Are Better Indicators Of Gender Diversity
Study: Where the Worlds Top Companies Stand: 20-First's Global Gender Balance Scorecard 2011 (Wittenberg-Cox, 20-First 2011) Finding: Executive committees are a much better indicator of true gender balance in corporate culture than board reports, and women's...
Gendership: A Guy’s View
When I interviewed Mike Howard, Chief Security Officer at Microsoft, on the subject of leadership, we also had a great conversation about the role he sees gender and diversity playing in modern organizations. I listened to understand Gendership – the partnership of...
When Women Talk About Themselves, They Earn More
In a recent survey of working adults conducted by Accenture, 68 percent of the women thought it took hard work and long hours to advance in a company. The result often leaves women feeling burned out, and in some cases, they don't even choose to move up the ladder....
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