None of us can grin from ear to ear every minute of every day at work. But being happy with what we do professionally matters. Still, we wonder, is achieving happiness at work a goal or a natural byproduct of meaningful work?
It’s a topic we have tackled before at Take The Lead and one worth revisiting.
Read MoreTo everyone who started her workday in her pajamas and takes a lunch break with a stroll to the couch, congratulations. You may be more productive than your friend who commuted to the office today.
Read MoreBefore I began my first job out of graduate school in 1979 as a managing editor of a regional magazine, my sister Madeleine, a lawyer, took me shopping. She insisted I buy a handful of blouses with bow ties at the neck in white, beige and black, plus a few black and gray skirts below the knee and a tan blazer I hated.
Read MoreWhereas what? It’s Women’s Equality Day August 26, but are we equal yet?
Forty-five years ago this week on August 26, 1971, New York Democratic Representative Bella Abzug succeeded in formally having Women’s Equality Day put on the books. It was to commemorate the 19th Amendment signed 51 years earlier and signified a long battle for equal representation since the launch of the women’s civil rights movement in 1848.
Read MoreIf only life was like it appears on TV.
Cookie Lyon, played by Taraji P. Henson, is the co-founder of the fictional Empire Entertainment and the roar behind Lyon Dynasty. Anika Calhoun, played by Grace Gealey, is the head of A & R at Empire Entertainment. Pop icon Mariah Carey will also be featured with the regular cast of characters in the upcoming season three of the wildly popular, award-winning TV series, “Empire.”
Read MoreBounce back. Get up. Put on your big girl pants.
We sometimes repeat trite clichés when we (or one of our friends, colleagues or family members) have a setback.
But what does it mean to be truly resilient? And how can we fill our toolbox with a set of skills and strategies that will help us recover?
Read More‘Tis the season of the summer internship for many. If you are lucky and are in college or recently graduated, there’s a good chance you’re either neck-deep into your internship or are looking to start one soon.
Read MoreDiversity in the Fortune 500 took a loss recently as Xerox lost the only female African American CEO in the list.
Marge Magner, a member of Accenture’s board of directors, said, “Performance improves with diversity.” She speaks from her experiences of women leaders having the responsibility to make the way, to clear the path, to create opportunity.
Read MoreNow that summer has officially started, even if we love what we do, many of us are fantasizing perhaps about time off from work.
Read MoreWe all know perhaps firsthand about the side effects of working with someone who is a Debbie Downer, but how about the after-effects of working with a person in the office who is always looking for help?
Read MoreIn spite of the international accolades for architects such as Jeanne Gang of Chicago, who has changed the face of building design in this decade (and earned a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in the process), architecture and design remain difficult industries for women to prosper and rise to the top. Strong leadership of women in many design arenas is the foundation for progress.
Read MoreFrom the image of the giddy United Airlines flight attendant in the 1968 commercial “Come Fly With Me” to Nia Vardalos as the one-woman travel agency in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” decades later, both scenes may create the impression that women dominate the travel industry.
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