Posted on 13 May 2008. Tags: Family Motherhood and Home, Gardening, Harvesting, Health Happiness and Wellbeing
Last October I wrote a post on “planting the seed”: It’s no secret that I’m no domestic goddess. It’s not that I wouldn’t like a Better home and garden; it just doesn’t rate high enough in my priorities. But around this time of year, for a very brief moment, instinct kicks in and from no-where […]
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Posted on 12 May 2008. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Management and Leadership, Women in Leadership, working women
I was lucky enough to a Women in Finance luncheon in Sydney as a guest of Hudson. Not just because ours was the most quoted table in the room, but also because I had the chance to hear from Helen Nugent who is Director of Macquarie Bank, Origin Energy, and Freehills, as well as being Chairman of […]
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Posted on 11 May 2008. Tags: Career Management, Management and Leadership, Women in Leadership
I don’t know about you, but if some goal-setting guru tells me one more time to stretch myself just a little bit more, I think I might just snap! We live in a world which is constantly raising the bar on our measure of success so that only the most audacious and ambitious goals are […]
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Posted on 10 May 2008. Tags: Feminism, Women in Leadership, Women's Rights
In a discussion with a male colleague the other day, he hit me out of the blue when he labeled me with the f-word. No, not that one. He asked if I am a feminist. I was surprised – it’s not a term that one often hears these days. In our politically correct world, it’s […]
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Posted on 09 May 2008. Tags: Business, Career Management, working women
In business, I mean, rather than your infamy in general. At a networking function last week I met a delightful partner in one of Australia ’s top law firms. Let’s call him Mark. You know the kind of person I mean, the all-round-good-guy who everyone can’t help but like.He appeared genuinely interested as I relayed the story […]
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Posted on 08 May 2008. Tags: Career Management, Management and Leadership, Women in Leadership, working women
If the headlines of almost every major media outlet are accurate, Hillary Clinton’s run towards the Whitehouse may be nearing the end. Despite her assurances she’s still in the race, the political commentators seem to disagree (see AFR page 14 today – “Dog day for Clinton as challenge fades” by Tony Walker who writes “Unless […]
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