The Woman Effect

Career Strategies Beyond “Being Nice”

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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