Entries Tagged as 'Glass Ceiling'

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Add More Women to the Top 50 List

After reading the Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Business Gurus some time ago, I asked the question Where Are the Women Gurus?
The insightful Wally Bock provided a very interesting, two part answer. Firstly, he checked his personal bookcase and noted that of the 50 or so business books he has/is in the process of reading, [...]

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Actively Managing Careers

In the cut and thrust of our everyday work lives it is easy to overlook the achievements that you amass each and every year. It may be a new product launch, you may win an award or it may simply be the completion of a long project. Whatever your achievement is, it is important that [...]

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

The Next Big Thing is You

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Originally uploaded by Emu stardust
Tom Davenport writes a blog over at Harvard Business Online, called The Next Big Thing. His latest post talks about the Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Business Gurus that I wrote about here, and responds to the criticism around the lack of women represented in the list. And while this [...]

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Oh How Far We’ve Come!

I read an interesting quote today that highlights just how much progress we have made in our collective thinking about women in leadership positions. The quote, from a rather interesting source was in regard to the consideration of the appointment of a woman to the Supreme Court of the United States. The respondent, our 37th [...]

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Where are the Women Gurus?

Tom Davenport recently published a list of the Top 50 business gurus for the Wall Street Journal. The Top 5, measured in terms of Google hits, media mentions and academic citations were:

Gary Hamel – leading strategy guru and author of Leading the Revolution
Thomas L Friedman – New York Times columnist and author of The World [...]

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Raise Money and Your Profile

Let the bidding begin. . .
Originally uploaded by MarSea
According to the Department of Labor, women represent 46% of the labor force. Forty percent of women work in management, and interestingly, women accounted for 51% of all workers in the high-paying management, professional, and related occupations. However, at senior and executive levels the situation does [...]

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Move Over Boys

This very interesting article from NY Times writer, Stephanie Rosenbloom, shows that a new generation of girls will radically transform the workplace. Think about this. The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 35% of girls (against 20% of boys) write blogs with similar statistics for web pages. That means that by the time [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Want Higher Profits? Smash the Glass Ceiling

According to a near two-decade research study of Fortune 500 companies (from 1980–1998) by Roy Adler, a Fulbright scholar and Professor of Marketing at Pepperdine University and one of a very select few awarded the distinction of Designated Fellow by the Academy of Marketing Science, there is a strong correlation between women in the executive [...]