If you think that "being nice" isn't necessarily a good career strategy, you're right. Putting greater value on relationships than results isn't the best approach, says recent research. However, there are alternatives to "being bitchy" and Marcia does a great job outlining all the great career...
The Woman Effect
Female Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Business Success
By: Lee Washington Being an entrepreneur is all about empowering yourself to create a business that's right for you. It's about facing up and rising to different challenges, overcoming the day-to-day demands, learning and planning for the future. In a new campaign e-commerce specialists Alibaba...
Activating The Hidden Face of Workforce Diversity
If you write a leadership blog you know the challenge of dredging the stock photo sites for perfectly politically correct photos of happy business women and men sporting every hue of skin color from creamy white to chocolate brown. If you actually run a business, you know the photo-dredgers have...
Women And Men Working Together = More Sustainable & Successful Work Environments
Want to sustain outstanding results in business? Then leadership must build a culture and environment where both women and men will thrive. The demand is right around the corner and the Millennials will expect it for young men are used to working with women as equals. Today’s college...
The Business Case For Gender Balanced Leadership
I have been honored with a regular writing gig at the Smartblog on Leadership - an extention of the Smartbrief empire. This was my first post as a contributing author and it generated a lot of interesting comments (read them here). The comments reminded me that there are plenty of people (men AND...
Dana Theus on It’s A Woman’s World with Carolyn Bruna
Dana Theus appeared last month on It's a Woman's World with Carolyn Bruna. In this 30 minute video Dana discusses InPower Women, the nature of INpowerment and The Woman Effect. Posted on YouTube (please share!)
Ladies, What Are We Waiting For?
I’ve been watching the statistics and conversations on pay inequality and women’s leadership development. The more I read, the less inspired I am that the world will change as a result of this dialog.