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Women Leaders: It’s (still) Not Easy Being ‘Grit’
It's still not easy for a woman to have an assertive management style without repercussions. Leslie helps us see this challenge for what it is. How do you manage it? - InPower Editors Earlier this year, my partner and I interviewed 28 women leaders about their styles...
INSPIRATION: Your Tolerance Creates Your World
Your tolerance shapes the culture you create around you. Take responsibility for it. Everything you accept becomes part of your world, whether you're conscious of it or not. Your world affects others, just as theirs does you. This is simply the way things are. If you...
Break Your Rules, Create New Paradigms
I recently attended a meeting sponsored by Women’s Weekly, an organization that connects high accomplishing women in the Washington, D.C. area. Judith Wilson founded the organization, herself a highly accomplished leader in the D.C. business and nonprofit communities....
Do Your Research For the Job Search
Looking to make a change to your work-life status? You might be considering or ready for a return the workforce. The more fun-filled summer months could be reminding you that you want to downsize your career. Or you may be starting or continuing a job search after a...
5 Practices To Go From Fears to Fierce
Does this situation sound familiar? You want to really go for that promotion but you don’t think you’re quite ready so you don’t raise your hand. You’ve been thinking about pursuing an entrepreneurial venture but are afraid of losing the steady paycheck so you don’t...
The To-Do List Method That Actually Works
Try these productivity tips to supercharge your day. I’m pretty sure there is no new information you could come up with as it relates to productivity and procrastination. Just about anything I could tell you has been written about at some point by someone, and in many...
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Be Your Best Self In Organizational Culture and Leadership
I have written a great deal about the all-important topic of leadership in Corporate America, specifically claiming that we are doing our companies and their people an injustice by having predominantly male senior management. In general, men and women have different...
3 Reasons Good Ideas Aren’t Good Enough
There’s a particular skill that middle managers who will become more than middle managers learn, and it’s not something that is taught in business school. It’s one of the reasons that we all benefit from good mentors, who really understand “how things work.” This...
Stuck at 15%: Are Women Doomed to Second Place?
Some athletes are simply not destined to get the gold. Women have a record-breaking presence in the Olympics this year - every nation sporting women on their teams for the first time in history and more women than men on the U.S. team. But when I look at the...
Women in Leadership
Are Women Really Sorry? Why Should They Be…Sorry?
By: Sharon McDermott How many times do you catch yourself saying the words, “I’m sorry”? “I’m sorry” when you bump into someone, when you are walking through a doorway, when your handbag is sitting on a chair and someone approaches and wants to sit down, you find the...
Do You “Fake It” to Succeed? (Video)
The higher you go in any organization, the more the leadership culture tends to solidify around you. This increases – or decreases – the chances that you’ll fit in. Too many fast trackers see this as a reason to conform to the culture around them and thus too many end...
Different-but-Good – What We Can Learn From Women In Leadership
This year on International Women's Day I am sharing a story about a woman and how she leads differently from the men around her, and is highly effectively in the process. I'm hopeful that in dialogs like these we're finally moving beyond the question of "are woman...
Diversity & Inclusion
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