Sisters across the globe are doing it for themselves more often and more successfully, new research shows. Yet even though women entrepreneurs in North America have the highest level of innovation, fewer than half of U.S. women entrepreneurs report they have confidence in their capabilities.
Read More“I was born in the middle of nowhere.”
That is how Sophia Mahfooz, the 25-year-old chief operating officer of Girls In Tech, describes the start of her life. Since 1992, she has masterfully moved from her beginnings in Afghanistan near Peshawar, Pakistan to a global position for a non-profit based in Silicon Valley where she can change the lives of young women around the world.
Read MoreMention retirement to Wendy Lewis and she might get mad. Maybe not mad exactly, but perhaps a tad indignant.
Read MoreAs in what matters when your house is flooded.
As in the secret to dealing with hate speech at work.
As in the human capacity to rise higher than Harvey’s waters and help each other.
Read MoreIt started with losing her lizard.
Sandy Coletta’s pet bearded dragon, or pogona, had escaped from its cage. As president of Kent Hospital in Rhode Island, Coletta says she wrote about how she felt losing her pet and her efforts to find it in the newsletter for 2,000 employees. There was, of course, a moral to the story, about adaptability and looking for solutions to a problem.
Read MoreIn honor of Labor Day next week, the national paradox of a day off work to salute a day of work, we can look ahead to what is projected as the future of work in this country.
Read MoreWhile most of my friends and colleagues debate the recent episodes of “Game Of Thrones” or even “Bachelor in Paradise,” I prefer to offer insights from my favorite TV indulgence, “The Great British Baking Show.”
Read More“The first responsibility of leadership is the creation of meaning.”—Warren Bennis.
The word of the week is ECLIPSED
Read MoreRacism and discrimination in the workplace are not new; their legacies are unfortunately centuries old in this country. But in the last several weeks and months, overt acts of racism in America have multiplied in many different arenas–including the workplace.
Read MoreWhen 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?
Read MoreSouth 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.
Read MoreMy 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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