Second-Generation Gender Bias – Part I
This blog is the first part of a two-part series. Look for Part II next week. A front-page article titled Harvard Business School Case Study: Gender Equity in The New [...]
A Five-Step Program for Employee Investment
It’s pretty much a given—whether investing in your health through a regular exercise program, in your future through intelligent money management, or in your children’s future by helping them get [...]
Four Steps to Becoming More Influential
In a recent Harvard Business Review article titled “How Experts Gain Influence,” a group of financial thought leaders explain how to bolster your influence within an organization through four key [...]
The Search for Gender Equity in Executive Committees
Each year global consulting firm 20-first evaluates the success of the Top 100 companies from three key regions of the globe—the US, Europe and Asia—on what it views as a [...]
Motherhood And Money Management—Mutually Exclusive?
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones certainly knows how to get a conversation going. During a question and answer session at symposium at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of [...]
Giving is Good Medicine
We all know the old saw, ‘It’s better to give than to receive,” or as Mark Twain famously quipped, “It is better to give than receive- especially advice.” This charitable [...]
Keep Calm and Carry On
Seawise University (formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth) in Victoria Harbour (Hong Kong),photo taken July 1972 by Barry Loigman, M.D. In the aftermath of last week’s horrific Boston Marathon bombings, [...]
The Language of Leadership: “What’s That You Said?”
In today’s hard-charging, data-driven world, words are used more sparingly than ever before. Texting and Twitter have reduced speech ‘2’ abbreviations and 140-word sound bites. Emails have replaced face-to-face meetings, [...]
Rebuilding Trust: The Humility Imperative
In an article entitled “What Pope Francis can teach CEOs about leadership,” the finance writer Allison Linn raised some compelling observations that should resonate for those working in the financial services industry. Though [...]
Marissa Mayer’s Dilemma
Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo When an internal memo was leaked earlier this week detailing that Yahoo was no longer allowing its employees to work remotely, the news [...]