by Nina | May 21, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Glass Ceiling, Innovation, Leadership, Women
mirror, mirror 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...
by Nina | May 16, 2008 | Glass Ceiling, Leadership, Nina Simosko, Women
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...
by Nina | May 8, 2008 | Glass Ceiling, Nina Simosko, Women
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...
by Nina | May 7, 2008 | Conferences, Glass Ceiling, Nina Simosko, Women
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,...
by Nina | Mar 14, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Glass Ceiling, Nina Simosko
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...
by Nina | Mar 7, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Glass Ceiling, Leadership, Nina Simosko
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...