By: Mary Schaefer Do you know that some fish, including sharks, will grow only to the proportion of the container you keep them in? Seems sort of obvious, but what this means is, depending on the size of the aquarium, you could end up with a mature 7-inch shark. The literature I read stated that...
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 of influence and how those...
Research continues to show us that mentorship is not enough to help women get into senior executive leadership in significant percentages. What the research says is that in addition to cultivating mentors to help them “learn the ropes,” the folks that leapfrog their peers into the executive ranks...
GUEST AUTHOR: ANN TIMMONS It takes a lot of humility to be a good leader. You have to be personally strong enough to hear bad news without blaming the messenger. Ann does a great job of helping us focus on this key leadership skill and reminding us why developing our own inner power is so useful...
Women and men both find confidence a key success skill, and we all find it challenging to muster up sometimes too! We really like John's practical advice for finding your inner confidence and hope you do too! - InPower Editors A number of people I’ve worked with have told me that they struggle...
Ladies, I write a lot for women, but I talk to many men who want to help us too. I recently wrote this for Smartblogs on Leadership (where lots of men hang out) and thought you might like to pass it on to the men you know that have women (especially younger women) reporting to them. Enjoy! If...
It is a well known fact in human psychology. We only see what we believe. I was speaking a few years ago on a panel of C-suite women about how to achieve career success. One woman in the audience asked: “How did each of you shatter the glass ceiling?”. Every single one of us on the panel looked...
January 1st is coming fast! If you’re like most of us, you’re knee-deep in year-end closing reports, next year budgets, family holiday planning and… stress! Work Life (much less balance!) at the end of the year is just crazy – largely because we’re scrambling to meet so many goals we set for...
If you haven’t started thinking about your goals for next 2013, you better get cracking! In this three part video series, and December webinar on the subject, we’re evaluating what makes a good goal statement – the kind that is more likely to be achieved! Simple goal statements like “in 2013 we...
This is my second reference to the book Turn The Ship Around, by David Marquet. It’s such a good book on empowering leadership I recommend it to any leader or aspiring leader. Empowering leadership is not easy. Here is one secret to it that I particularly like. Have you ever met someone who’s...
