Which companies in Silicon Valley have the most women on boards? That's the question Bryce Druzen answered yesterday on the Silicon Valley Business Journal website. Not surprisingly, Druzen found that only 16.9% of Silicon Valley companies have women corporate board members. You can see how the companies in the tech capitol of the United States rank below and get all of … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2013
Employees or Independent Contractors? The IRS Is Watching
Do you use independent contractors to provide services to your business? They might not be independent contractors according to IRS rules. In fact, they might be considered employees by the IRS, and you could get into trouble if you're not treating them as employees complete with necessary payroll tax payments, Medicare and Social Security withholdings, and all of the other … [Read more...]
Can Marissa Mayer Really Turn Around Yahoo?
Guest post by Stacy Hilliard (learn more about the author at the end of the article): Last summer, Marissa Mayer was named the CEO, director and president of Yahoo. Prior to taking that position, she worked for more than a decade at Google and helped launch more than 100 features and products. A piece from Bloomberg News notes that in recent years, competitors like … [Read more...]
The Ties That Bind
In the past year I have found myself talking about partnership an awful lot. As one partnership crashed and burned this week and several other began, here is some advice I have learned. Understand your value When you are starting out I don’t care how much you think you know, you don’t know as much as someone with 10 years of experience on you. If you don’t have all of the … [Read more...]
Women and Leadership Influence Includes Women on Business
Traackr, a social media influence moderation company, used its Influencer Network Analysis feature to identify the most influential people online in the "Women and Leadership" topic. These are the people who are leading the online conversation about women and leadership and the people who are highly engaged with these influencers. The Traackr report includes the top 49 women … [Read more...]
Women in Leadership… Do We Help or Hurt Each Other?
Guest post by Victoria Rotante (learn more about the author at the end of the article): After more than 25 years as an apparel industry executive, I have experienced many women in leadership roles as less than inspiring or supportive. For whatever reason, there are too many talented women leaders (from my experience) who don't understand that mentoring and developing their … [Read more...]
5 Signs a Business Expects and Embraces Highly Accountable Behavior
Guest post by Linda Galindo (learn more about the author at the end of the article): Your boss couldn’t be less clear about what she expects you to do. Co-workers miss deadlines and you get blamed. Supervisors treat employees who make honest mistakes like they’ve broken the law, so nobody admits it when they make one. In short, your workplace lacks accountability. Time to … [Read more...]
Social Media Recruiting in 2013 [Infographic]
The majority of recruiters use social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to find and assess job candidates, but which companies and organizations are leading the way with social media recruiting? You might be surprised. According to the data in the infographic from RecruitLoop shown below, government agencies and departments are surprising leaders in social … [Read more...]
Gender Wage Gap in Engineering Driven by Professional Culture
The gender wage gap in engineering is caused by cultural ideologies in the engineering profession according to research by Rice University Assistant Professor Erin Cech, Ph.D. The report was published by Oxford University Press in partnership with the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and first appeared in Social Forces, a leading … [Read more...]
14-Point Roadmap to Improve Boardroom Diversity and Get More Women on Boards
Only one in five corporate board members in the S&P 100 are women and just 15.6% of all board seats in the United States are held by women. In other words, there is very little diversity in corporate board rooms. Today, WomenCorporateDirectors and the WomenCorporateDirectors Global Institute released a 14-point roadmap to improve diversity in corporate boardrooms. These … [Read more...]