High potential talent comes in all colors, sizes, ages, and in both genders. Some companies intentionally search diverse areas of the talent pool, but few, if any, explore the place where some of the greatest talent swims, because they don’t know where it is. Discover this secret place, here.
I was not having it all, when Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, caused an uproar. When I stopped having the travel part of IT ALL, I had time to write that the real question is how to change the gender based determination of which ITs men can have and which ones women can have, and offer two solutions.
Dear Billy:
With the smell of spring in the air and the Augusta Nationals just around the corner, I am enjoying the prospect of watching this year’s competition in person.
In my role as CEO of IBM, I regret to inform you that we are reducing our sponsorship by 50.8 percent. This is, not coincidentally, the percentage of women in the country’s population according to the 2010 census.
In WOMEN AND THE PARADOX OF POWER Dr. Anne Perschel and Jane Perdue report that corporate executives leave money on the table and forgo future success by failing to advance more women to senior leadership roles. The two researchers identify specific actions leaders can take to change this picture.They also suggest businesswomen prepare themselves to take on influential leadership roles by understanding and using power more effectively. Perschel and Perdue identify 5 actions for women and 3 for current leaders that will advance women into senior leadership roles and produce better bottom line results for their companies.
Events that took place at a recent New England Patriots football game gave me insight into gender differences on speaking up about diversity and injustice.
In this month’s issue: Women in Academia; Women, Power, and Shifting Paradigms; Men Speaking up about “Why Women?”; Women at mid-life;
Emerging global conditions are a flashing neon sign that calls for a PARADIGM SHIFT. Women can and are critical to making this shift. But first we will need to move into power, but there is a careful and paradoxical dance required. Read about the shift and the dance…
Our study on women and power reveals the secrets of women who have made it beyond glass ceilings and through obstacles comprised of systemic issues, self-imposed barriers and legacy cultures, while remaining true to who they are as women.
This month we asked men we respect, men who are leaders and early adopters of NOWLeadership (although they may name it differently) to talk about why they believe integrating feminine and masculine is the way forward and why we need women to lead along with men. Every month I think our contributors have created the best-yet issue of NOW. This month it’s really true. Once again.
She was obsessed with fairness.
A woman of great certainty who saw the world in black and white.
Later in her life she asked me to teach her about gray.
