On her high school basketball team playing in the position of forward, Janet Lynch learned the value of a pivot.
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“What’s your leadership super power?”
It was a simple request with profound implications at the recent “Powertopia: Transforming The Nature Of Leadership” event for Take The Lead in New York.
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You’re in charge of the intern this summer. Yes, as a leader in your organization, it can prompt impatience and eye-rolling. But it can also prompt the understanding that the extra time it takes for you to show someone how to finish needed projects, you can also mentor someone professionally for a lifetime.
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As 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.
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“Hello, strong women!”
Judging by the applause, whistles, hoots and hollers that followed, you can say that Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) greeting to a room of more than 1,000 for the “Together We Rise: Empower the Women, Develop The Nation” luncheon in Chicago recently was extremely well-received.
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The moment that changed everything for the Branch sisters arrived at 3 a.m. in 2000. Titi Branch was experimenting mixing together natural ingredients for homemade hair care products in the kitchen of the Brooklyn four-story brownstone she shared with sister, Miko Branch.
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Cracking the Code
How much do we love this news of the week? The #WonderWoman movie is doing better at the box office over the longer haul—not just opening week–than any superhero movie in 15 years. The world is truly ready for her/us. That’s what cracking the code is all about.
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Rosalind Hudnell, vice president of corporate affairs at Intel Corp., recalls her first day of work 20 years ago at the $158 billion global technology giant.
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Humans are meaning-making creatures. We love to tell stories, and these shape how we see ourselves and our world. That’s what makes our ever-present media so powerful.
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“Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun” was the longest running advertising campaign for Doublemint chewing gum, and Carolyn Morgan may agree it is a slogan that can — at least much of the time– be applied to her own life.
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Her biggest hint may have arrived in film school.
As a graduate student at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, writer, director and producer Julie Kalceff says, “I found the process to have predominantly male students. Film and TV traditionally are not terribly inclusive. I was frustrated by the industry.”
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