When You Think Quotas, Think Talent
We’ve all heard the news by now. Mary T. Barra was chosen as the next CEO of General Motors. G.M.’s board chose her unanimously from a few internal candidates to [...]
6 Tips for Adopting the WE Mindset
Despite gender bias and imbalance, millions of women are forging successful leadership roles in finance and other industries. What is the mindset that sets them apart? Here’s what we have [...]
Second-Generation Gender Bias Part II
In part one of this two-part series, we discussed the gender study Harvard University conducted over the last two years, and the changes the institution is implementing as a result. [...]
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 [...]
Strong, Warm Leaders Win the Race…
Run a simple Google search on the traits of a successful leader and a plethora of resources quickly fills the page—the ‘Top 10 Qualities That Make a Great Leader,’ the [...]
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 [...]
How Am I Doing? – The Power of Constant Feedback
A performance appraisal is a complicated interaction between a manager and an employee. Employees can be fearful of negative feedback that could stunt their potential career advancement, and even result [...]
How Bureaucracy Stifles Creativity
In its first quarter earnings report for 2012, Apple announced that the iPhone had generated $24.42 billion in revenue. During the same quarter, Microsoft, once Apple’s fiercest competitor, announced $20.89 billion [...]