This is not about Imposter Syndrome, performance reviews or career aspirations. This is about deciding your motivations and how you are as a person and how you behave toward others. Do you do good works just so people see them or just because it will help someone?
Read MoreVisiting Rome after college and viewing the masterpieces of 17th century sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini proved to be a career shift for Maria Soldier, executive director of Alex Soldier, an international jewelry enterprise created by her father.
Read MoreIssue 74 — November 11, 2018. Feast your eyes on this Washington Post infographic tracking wins by female candidates for Congress and Governorships in last week’s elections.
Read MoreAs in sometimes you have to make up a new word to say what you mean.
As in a world where power and leadership are shared equally by men and women.
As in Take The Lead’s amazing performance event, “Powertopia: Women, Power, and the Art of Leadership Equality.”
Read MoreAs in the world turns on human connections.
I must have said this tens of thousands of times over the course of my personal and professional life. It is without any doubt the most important leadership lesson I’ve learned over several decades as a CEO.
Read MoreI’ve marched in and organized many marches. So I supported but wasn’t planning on going to DC for the January 21 Women’s March, feeling good that younger women were rightly leading this time around. As the time grew nearer, Take The Lead’s Leadership Ambassadors created an Action Party event that grew just as the Women’s March itself was growing beyond all expectations. I had to be there—for our event and in solidarity with the millions of other marching women and men around the world.
Read MoreCeline Dion, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Toni Braxton ruled the pop charts while “Forrest Gump” and “The Lion King,” drove movie ticket sales. It was 1994 and also the year the U.S. government declared the goal of awarding 5 percent of all contracts to small businesses owned by women.
Read MoreHere’s the management truth many of us know too well: We’re promoted because of our track record as front line employees. Our job skills are strong, so they put us in charge of the work. That’s when we discover we need a whole different set of skills, because we’re not just managing work, we are leading people, a responsibility that is complicated and challenging, worrisome and wonderful – and rarely easy.
Read MoreMarch is Women’s History Month, so it is fitting that the month begins like a lioness and hopefully will stay as strong in recognition of women role models for the rest of the year. No bowing out like a lamb. Aiming to honor all those who have shaped our culture throughout history and those who are coming up in the world, we march into March applauding our sisters who are women leaders and role models in business and beyond.
Read More“Now put your hands up.”
A peach of a new study out of Georgia State University finds that more than men or married women, single women have the highest rates of entrepreneurship of all individuals. What makes a single women start a company on her own more often?
Read MoreBecause boardrooms in private tech companies operate more like boys clubs (an estimated 78 percent have no women board members), theBoardlist launched an initiative last week to offer a solid solution to the lament that no good women were available for the open slot.
Read MoreYou break up with someone who does not make you happy. Same is true for young women in the workplace: You move on to another job if your current place isn’t doing it for you, your career goals and your vision of a professional life with meaning.
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