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...
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...
Am I a feminist? My whole, half century life as a professional, a wife, a mother of two and now a women’s leadership advocate I’ve never had a comfortable answer to this question. While this might seem odd since I now run a women’s site, I know more women who feel this ambivalence about...
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...
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 better leaders than men?" and...
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 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!)
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.
The Dali Lama said “The Western Woman will come to the rescue of the world.” Never mind that Hilary Clinton didn’t get elected president of the United States. The trend she is a part of is well underway, and I’m not talking about feminism.
Just because no one I know got raptured last weekend doesn’t mean the apocalypse isn’t upon us; it just means we get to change the world before everything goes to hell. The world is in a pretty nasty state, based on the daily headlines, and it’s easy to feel powerless to save it. Yet I know so many people determined to do just that, many of them women. What I’d like to see is more people – men and women – stepping into their world-saving powers, more consciously, more assertively and more effectively.
Note to Men: Don’t stop reading now (if you got this far – kudos to you!) The stuff we ladies are naturally good at – and that the world needs – you are pretty good at too. Mostly you just need to ALLOW yourself to be good at it!
