Fantastic blog by Deborah May, and gathering our stories of cultural resistance and scrutiny for female leaders
Posted on 06 June 2010.
I just got the Advancing Women newsletter, and it contained a piece by the wonderful Deborah May that took my breath away. Of course, I know that effective and successful women are often moved, sidelined or cast aside for a male coworker. And I know from personal experience, and the stories of my peers and the sphinxx […]
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What Makes A Leader? Thoughts from the EQ guru
Posted on 05 June 2010.
Daniel Goleman is the man behind the “emotional intelligence” wave that (thankfully) hit us all in 1995. He has recently analysed the competency models from 188 major companies, and has uncovered a dramatic and critical finding – the EQ proved to be twice as important as cognitive skills and intellect. His findings are listed in […]
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Does having more women on an exec create better results? A readers thoughts
Posted on 05 June 2010.
Recently, I received an email from one of many women who attended a May Ascend development day, called Alison. In her thank you email was an interesting observation about her Tasmanian owned and operated private health cover. Alison had noticed that the MD of her health cover fund was a woman, Colleen McGann. And that […]
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Why are women-owned firms smaller than male ones? HBR Blog details new findings
Posted on 04 June 2010.
The Wall Street Journal has recently posted an article on the pertinent question – why are women-owned firms smaller then male ones? When you consider women have been starting their own businesses in ever-increasing numbers for over 30 years now, at twice the rate of male stared businesses. So what’s going wrong? Is there something wrong with […]
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Entrepreneurs: Hot 30 Under 30 – why only 7 women? See the list here
Posted on 04 June 2010.
A big congratulations to Natalie Aroyan, Sarah Sammon, Belinda Cordina, Amy Lowe and Chrissy Hammond, Christine Matta, Holly Owen and Zoe Warne for recently making the Hot 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs list. While these women have definitely earned their places on that list, I wonder why there are so few women on this list, when women […]
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Save $344 when you let Denni Francisco revolutionize the way you work with Superworking
Posted on 04 June 2010.
Denni was one of our wonderful speakers at our Ascend series in May and those who attended will agree that she really pressed our buttons about what we need to do to be more resilient and stress free at work. Her highly respected and effective Superworking program truly does show you how to work smarter, not harder. […]
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