Posted on 16 November 2010. Tags: Ascend Development Days, Career Management, Heroes, The Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership, women leaders, Women on boards
Meek and mild is not how I’d describe Lynn Ralph, board performance specialist with Cameron Ralph and non-executive director of the Sydney Swans and The Sydney Institute. In past lives she was also a successful investment manager and ran the Sydney Dance Company. And those in attendance at Ascend in Sydney on Friday would agree: this is a woman who pulls […]
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Posted on 16 November 2010. Tags: Health Happiness and Wellbeing
If you needed any more proof that surviving a high stress job is bad for you, look no further than this new studyby Harvard University researchers. The scientists analysed job strain in 17,415 participants in the US Women’s Health Study and found that women with high-stress jobs face about 88 per cent more risk of a […]
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Posted on 16 November 2010. Tags: Media
If – like me – you enjoy a daily dose of mental exercise, you might enjoy thedailybrainstorm.com. Today I’m featured as the guest contributor for my post on Why Its Still A Boys Club at the Big End of Town. Those of you who I mentor and encourage to build your personal profile – why not submit […]
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Posted on 11 November 2010. Tags: Management and Leadership
I sometimes feel that all the much emphasis placed on leadership and vision, and the focus on management best practices doesn’t overlap, and that this causes issues for many unwitting employees. I’ve worked with a lot of managers, and a lot of leaders in my career, and there have been a couple of shockers on […]
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Posted on 11 November 2010. Tags: Ascend Development Days, Bias & stereotypes, Career Management
When was the last time you spend a day focused just on you and what you want to achieve from work and life? If you’re in Melbourne next Friday 19th November, I’d love to see you at the Ascend career development day where you’ll have the chance to do just that. Here’s what one of […]
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Posted on 10 November 2010. Tags: Entrepreneurial Activities, Mentoring
You’ve probably heard the old expression that “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. This concept proves itself over and over with the exponential power of the Mastermind Group. The idea of a mastermind collective was first mooted in Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich. Hill wrote, “No two minds ever […]
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