Learn where your biggest market opportunity exists and how to position your company to win. Forbes, Time and Harvard Business Review have written about women as the biggest and most ignored market segment – two times larger than India and China combined. Attendees will learn key principles for succeeding in this market.
I don’t like looking over the edge of a cliff. I don’t even look at others when they do it. Makes my stomach flip. So our eight day white water rafting trip in the Grand Canyon was not only beautiful and challenging. It was downright (punny) terrifying at times, but it is where I learned great lessons about leading fear and that donkeys can be smarter than humans. First, the donkeys.
Kill all the pigs. This decree was ordered and carried out by government officials in Egypt to prevent a swine flu epidemic. The decision failed to consider the informal socio-cultural system of garbage disposal nor did it prepare the masses to deal with the consequences of this change. As a result, the streets of Cairo are overflowing with garbage, and the government is dealing with massive environmental, social and political issues.
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All leaders from front line managers to CEOs are supervisors. Supervision is commonly referred to as overseeing another person’s work. Suppose, however, it means to
“Executives are hired on experience and fired on personality.” This well known phrase in the executive search business sums up years of collective experience and the prevailing findings from executive derailment research. Estimates of the financial cost of a single failed manager range from $1,000,000 to 2,700,000. The good news is that there are ways to predict and avoid hiring a poor fit as well as being alert to and addressing early warning signs of problems.
When: November 4, 2009 Time: 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. Where: Women in Leadership Summit, San Francisco Click here to register and find out more about
The Washington Post sees the light. A recent article, Fixing the Economy: It’s Women’s Work (see below) reports that businesses with at least 3 women in top
Put on your sunglasses, grab your beach blanket, watch the children at play and learn along with me. Mandated change doesn’t work in the long run. For lasting results turn instead to inspired and organic change.
The window of opportunity to free women and men from the confines of gender stereotypes is opening now.
This is Part 1 of a two part series. The first segment highlights why gender matters in leadership and how gender based obstacles to enjoying success in leadership and in life are changing. Part 2 addresses the three most important things women can do to earn top leadership roles in business and remove gender based barriers.
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