In our recent GUTSY WOMEN LEADERS retreat I showed a video of Isabel Allende when she was a presenter at a TED conference. She is one of my favorite authors; her novels are filled with the depth of what life is all about; love, sorrow, misunderstandings, and the courage to change. She mentions a conversation she had with her daughter who stated emphatically that feminism is … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
Wait…what?
Guest Post by Amber Little Listening seems like a pretty basic skill that doesn’t take much thought. If we can hear, we can listen, right? Wrong. Hearing and listening are two very different things. What gets me about listening is that we’ve had very little formal instruction on effective listening, yet we spend plenty of time training to effectively read, write and speak… … [Read more...]
Inc Magazine’s 10 Tips on How to Research Your Competition
Inc. Magazine recently ran a piece titled, "10 Tips on How to Research Your Competition." If Tweets, Likes and LinkedIn Shares are any indication, this piece by Darren Dahl, has generated quite an online buzz. Must be a compelling topic... The interest and importance of researching your competition is a no-brainer. Obviously it's important, no matter what industry you're … [Read more...]
Value for your Community
If you sell something to your community of clients, and they receive some measure of enjoyment, appreciation, usage, or some other measure of value out of your product or service, then you're fulfilling the role your company exists to play. Entrepreneurs exist to create value for the economy: this is the primary benefit they offer. Without a special group of someones … [Read more...]
Employee Sick Time Makes Your Whole Company Ill
Guest Post by Suzanne Weinstein of In Sync Consulting Employees do call in sick because they are truly under the weather. However, many people also take sick time off due to other factors. Sometime, just becuase they do not want to go to work that day. To ebb this pattern, managers need to communicate with their employees and make sure the work environment is open, alive and … [Read more...]
My Hopes for Katie
Post by Jane K. Stimmler, contributing Women on Business writer I remember my excitement and high hopes back in 2006 when Katie Couric was installed in her position as news anchor for one of the major networks. It seemed to me to be another long awaited breakthrough for women and I looked forward to watching her first broadcast. That evening took a farcical turn when, … [Read more...]
Get your Idea off the Ground – Green Business Startup Capital through GreenFunder.com
The new crowdfunding website GreenFunder.com offers a unique tool for innovators, entrepreneurs, and creators who have a burning desire to raise money and awareness for their socially responsible, sustainable, or green project. Socially responsible projects = benefit a person, community or the environment Crowdfunding = accomplishing a goal by pooling money from a large … [Read more...]
Super Women Leaders: GUTSY or NUTTY?
She got on the elevator in her full length mink coat. She had a Gucci scarf around her neck. Almost six feet tall and model skinny she looked ready to pose for Vogue. She smiled at the other tenants of this posh New York condo, all ready to brave the streets of Manhattan. They returned her smile. No one said anything yet wondering why she was wearing a fur coat in the heat … [Read more...]
My Girlfriends House: a New Opportunity to Give Back
This week we launched a new nonprofit organization serving disadvantaged girls ages 9-17 in the metropolitan Washington, DC area. I thought you'd be interested in seeing the press release for it. If any of you are in the DC area, please join us. Veronica Eyenga Was Looking for Friends. She Found a Cause Veronica Eyenga, President of VBP OutSourcing, recently launched My … [Read more...]
Women Executives More than Twice as Likely to Leave Jobs
Female executives are more than twice as likely to leave their jobs as men. This includes both voluntarily and involuntarily departures. Yesterday I was interviewed by a reporter writing for CareerBuilder on negotiating for women in business, and the data from a study by John Becker-Blease of Oregon State University, and his colleagues from Loyola Marymount University and … [Read more...]