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Ladies Locker Room: Sneak a Peek If You Dare

You are about to enter the mind of a woman. As more women rise to positions of power you have before you an opportunity to learn how we (or at least some of us) make important business decisions – the one’s that affect whether you get hired or whether your company wins our business.

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October 30, 2010 5 Comments

NOW Leadership Carnival – October 2010

This month’s NOW Leadership carnival features the elephant in the room, a real life astronaut, several family acts and a king & queen leadership duet of Facebook. The finishing touch includes just a dash of x-rated language.

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October 14, 2010 5 Comments

Facebook’s He Leader She Leader Duo

Shame on you New York Times for a recent headline referring to Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s best friend and further identifying her contributions are “touchy feely.” Get with the program, relationship skills ARE business skills. Watch Sheryl on TEDWomen as she talks about why there are so few women in top leadership roles and what we can do about it.

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October 14, 2010 8 Comments

Book Review: What Goes on Inside Our Heads

What if leaders, managers and human resource professionals could understand what’s going on inside people’s heads? What if teachers and parents had access to this same information? Brain science has new answers about what’s going on up there, and John Medina makes this knowledge accessible in Brain Rules.

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September 27, 2010 2 Comments

How She Tweets. How He Tweets?

A recent exchange with a male colleague on social media has been more like a ping pong match (challenge) than a cheer leading squad (support), which is what I’ve experienced with women on social media. Each works. Imagine the value added when they work together.

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August 13, 2010 17 Comments

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