Entries Tagged as 'Women'

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Epic Living Hour Podcast Live

Earlier today I was interviewed by Eric Pennington on his Epic Living Podcast. You can listen to the recorded podcast directly by clicking on the play button here on the left. My interview commences at 11 minutes into the podcast.
In the podcast I discuss my current role and experience (11:00), the importance of education for [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Join Me on the Epic Living Podcast

Eric Pennington, author of Waking Up in Corporate America, has a popular show, Epic Living Hour, on BlogTalkRadio each Friday. BlogTalkRadio takes the radio show format and brings it online — so you can listen live or download the show to play back on your computer or on your iPod. But one of the best [...]

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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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

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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, May 2nd, 2008

Professional BusinessWomen of California

This past week, I had the good fortune to attend the 19th Annual Conference of The Professional BusinessWomen of California conference. According to the organization, “The annual conference is PBWC’s main forum for women leaders to mentor and role model, foster upward career mobility and gain instant access to a large network of other [...]

Friday, April 25th, 2008

What Leaders Can Learn from Marion

Without question, we all strive to do the very best that we can. And, it probably goes without saying, that, to a large extent, we are limited only by our own capabilities. Be it singers, actors, athletes or even students, from a very early age, prodigies often make themselves known to those around [...]