What Do You Need to Lead?
Reading through contemporary leadership materials, one can easily begin to feel as though the key to success as a leader is little more than a numbers game. The literature is [...]
Go Ahead, Get Personal
More often than not, it seems that the current attitude for interpersonal interaction in the workplace is ‘arm’s length, please.’ The acceptable middle ground for exchange requires striking a delicate [...]
How to Negotiate the Gender Gap
Over the course of her working life, a professional woman makes approximately $1 million less than her male counterpart. According to a study conducted by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the [...]
Advice From the Top: Seven Steps to Success from C-Suite Women
This past July I was thrilled to launch the WE Interviews series. Since then, twice a month, this blog has featured an interview with a C-Suite woman, sharing her own struggles, triumphs, [...]
Personality, Perception, and Performance
Beth Mooney, Chairman and CEO of KeyCorp When the board members of KeyCorp were considering appointing Beth Mooney as Chairman and CEO, they knew she was beyond well-qualified, [...]
A Stroke of Pluck: New Rules at Augusta Put Women on Par
August 21, 2012 was an important day for women. This was the day the Augusta National Golf Club, host of the Masters Tournament, finally ended its 80-year-long, men-only policy by [...]
Visionary Thinking, a Requisite for Leadership
The quality that separates a good manager from a great leader can be summed up in one word: vision. A visionary leader is forward thinking, communicates a collective sense of purpose, [...]
4 Keys to Building a High Quality Professional Network
A robust professional network is an essential component of long-term success in business, especially for women. According to Boris Groysberg, professor at Harvard Business School, “Women face more institutional barriers [...]
Why More Stretch Assignments Could Be Better for Your Company in the Long Run
In a recent Washington Post Op-Ed, Sallie Krawcheck posits that more diversity in the senior management of financial institutions will be critical moving forward. Why? According to the former President [...]