You know you're supposed to do it to get ahead, but somehow you just find excuses not to. Emily shows us that it's as simple as doing it. Just do it. -InPower Editors Last week I spoke to 4,000 women. Two back-to-back sessions at the Massachusetts Conference for Women with 2,000 attendees each....
Innovation so often happens in the unplanned places. This is something of a conundrum for many leaders whose manufacturing B-School heritage tells them that everything should be planned out, documented and accounted for. Innovation – like its sister creativity – cannot be planned, budgeted, shoved into a “retreat” or predicted. It happens in the shower and in the in-between spaces of life and work.
Leading innovation is difficult because you have to risk looking like a fool. But when the great leader looks beneath the surface of the failures innovative playtime produces, they often discover that in those failures are seeds of success. Sometimes it’s a specific idea that results, sometimes it’s just reenergized employees, which can pay back in employee creativity, retention and improved customer service.
Innovation is a personal skill too. Here are three things you can do to create space for innovation in your life.
For years, I have been writing about the differences in the brains of men and women. I have touted the innate strengths women bring to the workplace. I have supported communication skills training that teach us to adapt to gender-based styles. The men in my life are indirectly teaching me that I...
As you may know by now, I’ve been on a research quest to understand why The Woman Effect is helping organizations and economies succeed when there is significant presence of women in leadership. My fourth (and final for now) finding turned out to be a happy surprise. In our search for leadership...
Does fear of failure hold you back? True story. A few months ago I had a rather large speaking engagement. It was with an audience larger than I usually speak in front of, with content I hadn’t delivered before. The night before the conference I set the alarm for 6 am. I was to meet the...
So much leadership communications training is about what we say to others, but the most powerful leaders have open communications with themselves too. Learn from Dana's insights on a new way to lead - from within! - InPower Editors Great leaders often cite “self-awareness” as the top soft skill...
If your New Years resolutions are already in danger, enjoy some tips from Leslie on how to make them real. - InPower Editors My work as a coach is to help people increase their capacity in an area that really matters to them. For some, it’s the capacity to connect more fully with others. Or...
You don’t know where you are going if you don’t know where you have been. It’s a common cliché, but it can be true – especially when we talk about women and leadership. When we think about historic women leaders, names that frequently come to mind are Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I. We don’t...
By: Carmen Bolanos We’ve all read about the qualities it takes to become a great female leader: how to “lean in,” what language to use in order to show an attitude of cooperation, the importance of personal flexibility. In addition to some of these overt actions and the content of what we say,...
By: Kevin Xu The greatest business lessons we can learn always involve treating one another with respect and kindness. When a devastating magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit Sichuan, China in May 2008, my late father Dr. Rongxiang Xu was the first person to assemble a team of medical professionals...
