If you’re an entrepreneur or CEO who’s reached great heights but still hasn’t been recognized for your accomplishments, in my line of work, I’d call you a Hidden Titan. A Hidden Titan is a CEO, entrepreneur innovator, and/or a visionary who has honed their expertise over the years, but in a world where internet sensations and wannabe entrepreneurs steal the spotlight, these … [Read more...]
Why AI Spreads Gender Bias and How To Change It
AI is permeating the business world today the way electricity did at the turn of the last century. We can already see that businesses that put AI at their core can reach more people, more quickly and make more money. As Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani show in their book, Competing in the Age of AI, Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms And … [Read more...]
5 New Leadership and Management Books You Can Read on a Plane
Looking for some good leadership and management books that you can read on your next business trip? Here are few new books that I recommend about risk, capitalism, data, and more! 1. Take Command Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business by Jake Wood The founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and an ex-Marine sniper applies lessons in leadership and teamwork … [Read more...]
The Dual System for Mature Company Growth
In his new book Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World, John Kotter proposes a dual system as a model for growth in mature companies. The model contains the traditional hierarchy and a nimble network – both are working towards a truly reliable, efficient, agile and fast enterprise. Kotter describes a dual operating system’s principles as … [Read more...]
Read to Succeed: A-List Business Books
With one eye on deadlines and bottom-lines, and the other on client and customer relations, it's easy to lost sight of professional goals. And, to maintain a palpable level of on-the-job inspiration. Some days you feel at the top of your game, full of energy and vision. Others, it's high anxiety, frustration, failure or an overall sense of defeat. You start sweating about … [Read more...]
Scrappy Women – An Interview With Founder Kimberly Wiefling
Are you an aggressive female with dreams, and will not take no for an answer? Would you rather speak your mind than go quietly into the night? If so you may be a Scrappy Woman. The other day I had the privilege of connecting with Kimberly Wiefling, President of Wiefling Consulting and Founder of ScrappyWomen.biz . Kimberly is a woman who speaks her mind and would rather … [Read more...]
What’s a “GUTSY CHICK”?
When I was working on the cover for my new book, “GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change”, I spent time with the designer looking at all the overt and subtle meanings of the word "GUTSY". Karrie, www.karrieross.com, asked me what the smallest visual I could think of to demonstrate what "GUTSY" means. I sat with closed eyes and saw a hand with elegant long fingers and well … [Read more...]
Women, Leadership, Self-Care, and BLUE MONDAY
You wake up Monday morning, pour yourself a glass of orange juice, and get breakfast ready for your clan. Off to the office, you battle the traffic, thinking about how to tell your rebel employee that there have been complaints about his behavior. You dread the meeting and yet know it can’t wait. Pulling into the parking lot you feel a wave of frustration, seeing that … [Read more...]
The Intricacies of How We Learn
The following is a validation that we still have a long way to go to make change happen when it comes to beliefs and perceptions about little girls and education. When I did research for my GUTSY book (due out in January) I was both frustrated and delighted with the studies that show how our own adult anxieties are picked up by little learners. The more we can … [Read more...]
Bethenny Frankel, Best Books on Start-ups, and 7 Leadership Attributes
What Can We Learn From Bethenny Frankel on Business? Bethenny Frankel is known as a reality star of Real Housewives of NYC, during that time Frankel started Skinnygirl cocktail. Which was sold for a reported $120 million. It was subsequently pulled from Whole Food Market shelves in August 2011 after it was discovered not to meet Whole Food's quality standards due to … [Read more...]