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More Women in Senior Leadership: New Research Report Details What Women and Corporate Leaders Must Do

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.

December 31, 2011 12 Comments

Put Up or Shut Up for Diversity – What Would Rosa Parks Do?

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.

December 28, 2011 6 Comments

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Roots of the Diversity

Three second-grade boys gathered by the chain link fence that divided the two school yards.
On the other side of the fence, four year old Hannah had just run a race, beating all the boys. She stopped to catch her breath.
“Dirty Kike.”
The words flew over the fence alongside stones the boys hurled at her.

October 23, 2011 6 Comments

Leadership that is the Change We Seek to Create

We are searching NOWLeaders who focus on a purpose that extends beyond the bottom line, with tendrils and tentacles that reach out to the local, national and global communities they serve, who lead collaboratively, who…. Will you help us find them?

September 7, 2011 No Comments

Leaders Stand When It’s Easier to Sit

A CEO Stands Up Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz cancelled a speaking engagement that would have given him and Starbucks a lot of visibility – over

August 12, 2011 12 Comments

NOWLeadership May Edition: “Why Women?” What He Says

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.

May 26, 2011 2 Comments

Why Women by Eric Peterson

Organizations that claim that there is no sexism in their culture, usually offer up one or two out of hundreds who have risen to senior leadership. If these women can do it, they reason, there’s absolutely no reason why others can’t. I have met these women. Without fail they are textbook examples of masculine leadership styles: focus on task, logical decision-making, unafraid to ruffle feathers in order to make their case.

May 26, 2011 1 Comment