Marissa Mayer is the first pregnant CEO of a major company, that we know of. With this news, we have the opportunity to re-think the boundary between work and life, Drawing the line with dashes, to achieve greater permeability, will serve us better in a variety of ways. It will even light the spark of innovation more readily.
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.
Jack Welch has practical advice and hard truths for achievement oriented women, But some important truths are missing in what Jack Welch and Suzy Welch have to offer.
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.
A colleague who requires you to be less so they can be more, is not a colleague worth your investment. Don’t be fooled. Your ego is not too big. Your colleague is too small.
Women are not alone in having difficulty finding the breath to “toot your own horn,” but they do seem to suffer this condition in larger numbers. By reframing the issue, learning to toot you won horn may suddenly be easier.
Do women lack vision? The question is raised too often. The answer is “No.” Quite to the contrary, women access and integrate more areas of the brain, more discrete intelligences, that tap logic, language, pictures, metaphors, etc. when solving problems.
I was driving… and barely listening to the radio, when this came through the speakers. ” … just a thousand dollars to start you business.
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg:
I am honored by your invitation to join the Facebook board, but at this time…
A recent Harvard Business Review article argues against development programs for women. I think these arguments do more harm than good.
We help you master the “most difficult” things.