When is unwanted physical contact ever OK in the workplace?
Never. Then why is it tolerated? Why is that although women might feel uncomfortable by a touch, a word or an innuendo at work, we might hesitate to speak out?
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South Africa is the world’s seventh largest producer of wine. The wine industry accounts for 4.6 percent of the Western Cape’s GDP and is the nation’s biggest permanent employer in agriculture. However, the industry is almost exclusively filled with wine companianes owned and operated by white men.
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My mother earned her MBA at 60 years old. She started taking classes at night at a local university when I was in college.
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Sharing decades of experience in tech, digital and start-up entrepreneurship, Ursula Hessenflow and Lora Ivanova were prepared for many tough questions in the quest to raise capital.
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It’s not like it was in middle school when perfect attendance—not missing a single day of school in a year—could grant you a certificate, award, mention during morning announcements on the last day of classes or maybe a bright gold sticker.
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As in Charlottesville
As in the junctions in life where we must choose hate or love, war or peace, yes or no.
As in if ever there was a week when we have to address the moral crossroads of leadership that I talked about in last week’s Sum, this is it.
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It all started with lunch and the question, “What do you need?”
Lauren Wesley Wilson was 25 and working at the junior level in a communications firm in Washington, D.C. in 2011 when she decided to launch a luncheon series. The goal was a grassroots effort to gather “open and honest” women of color in marketing and communications to help each other with whatever they needed.
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As in a junction where two or more roads meet, offering the traveler multiple paths.
As in an intersection, a point at which a crucial decision must be made that will have far reaching consequences (yep, I googled this one – small clue about my inspiration).
As in the moral crossroads of leadership. Where Google CEO Sundar Pichai stands at this moment.
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Hopefully, most of us are not daily sparring with co-workers behaving similarly to the fired Google employee James Damore who recently unleashed a 10-page anti-diversity, gender-bashing manifesto.
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“Perfection is overrated.”
That is one of the truths Kelly McNelis, founder of Women For One, wants every woman on the planet to know and internalize. You can redefine power in your mess.
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Pop culture role models for female lawyers over the past several years range from the hilarious underdog Elle Woods in “Legally Blonde” to the relentless “Judge Judy,” the ruthless Annalise Keating in “How To Get Away With Murder” and the real-life depiction by Edie Falco playing defense attorney Leslie Abramson in the upcoming NBC anthology series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.
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As managing director of Career Builder India, Arti Bedi Pullins learned lessons on startups and decision-making that helped make her the independent leader and digital strategy consultant she is today.
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