Issue 75 — November 18, 2018 Dr. Nancy O’Reilly, founder of the Women Connect 4 Good Foundation (and in full disclosure, board chair of Take The Lead) sounded exhausted when I called to ask how she and her horses were in the latest California disaster that looked on television like the fires of Hell.
Read MoreSometimes you have to speak up when you know what you know. Take a stand. Create change. Because it matters.
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 MoreI recently led an all-day seminar where a few people in the room exuded negativity starting from complaints about the breakfast and continuing relentlessly regardless of topic, discussion or activity. Cynical, overly critical of colleagues, adding only contradictions and challenges, they each had nary a kind word for anyone.
Read MoreTell the truth. Even if it is not going well.
Read MoreIt was a Tiffany Epiphany. Years ago while she was watching a phase of the annual 23-day Tour De France bicycle race on television, Tiffany Dufu, women’s leadership and author of Drop the Ball, says it suddenly occurred to her that what looked like an individual sport was really not that at all.
Read MoreIn the new Oscar-buzzing movie, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, Melissa McCarthy plays the late real-life author Lee Israel who turned to fabricating and forging historic author letters to make a living and pay the rent when her book deals dried up.
Read MoreHer career move from the heavens to human-centric workplace cultures makes perfect sense when you talk to Deborah Westphal, CEO of Toffler Associates.
Read MoreIssue 73 — November 4, 2018. This morning, my grandson commented that it made no sense for election day to be on Tuesday.
Read MoreThe robot may know best. In paths to close the gender funding gap in entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence may be key.
Read More“You would really be helping me out.” For many women in business, it seems we are always doing small and large favors for colleagues, clients, peers, bosses, administrators, staff and support teams. Under pressure, we may call on colleagues to help us out.
Read MoreGrowing up in a suburb of Birmingham, England, Amanda Pullinger looked to Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister of England, as her role model.
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