It’s not like it was in middle school when perfect attendance—not missing a single day of school in a year—could grant you a certificate, award, mention during morning announcements on the last day of classes or maybe a bright gold sticker.
Read MoreI know, I know! I’m usually telling you to GO. To set your intentions higher and embrace your power TO achieve them, and to go full bore to lead your dreams, not follow them.
But as essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson has said, “Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Read MoreI’m a sappy patriot. All four of my grandparents immigrated to this country to escape persecution and enjoy the blessings of a free society. I tear up at the sight of the Statue of Liberty even though I’ve seen it thousands of times, and I grew up believing in the words of Emma Lazarus’s poem at its base: “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”
Read MoreThe high profile silencing of women experts this past week has been stunning.
At a nearly all-male panel of five men and one woman at the World Science Festival in New York, Veronika Hubeny, theoretical physicist at University of California- Davis, was interrupted, talked over and her theories explained to her by New Yorkermoderator Jim Holt.
Mansplaining at its best.
Read MoreYou can lose them at hello.
If you are looking for a new job, or more elevated leadership roles, chances are the process begins with a written cover letter—email or snail mail. Even if your letter was prompted by a personal referral, you will need to send a formal letter to the person in human resources or the hiring manager in charge of the process of filling the position.
Read MoreChances are you are not going to find out you have been fired while you are watching a breaking news alert on the screen behind you as you give a speech to hundreds of your employees. Chances are if you are in a management position, you will not suddenly fire someone by letter without warning.
Read MoreSo your first 100 days at a new job in a new position will likely not land you as much scrutiny as the first 100 days in the Oval Office up this week for the chief executive officer of the United States.
Read MoreYou do not need the title of Chief Director of Creativity to be a creative leader. Or to lead creatively.
Read MoreCharo is a separate conversation.
As someone who indulges in the “Dancing With the Stars” phenom along with 10-11 million other fans each week watching the amateurs and the pros try to make it all look effortless, I can heed several important leadership lessons on display.
Read MoreFive-year-old kindergartner Lola dressed up as a different historic black woman leader each day recently to honor Black History Month. And one of her most beloved characterizations may well have been when she posed for the photo dressed as Harriet Tubman.
Read MoreIt’s always something. Whether you are feeling stress because of external factors outside of work in the form of breaking news, the economic climate or family issues, or whether you are pressed by internal factors including anxiety about performance, deadlines and perhaps even downsizing, stress arrives.
Read MoreA position in management does not land on you when you open the window.
In media leadership, strategies to achieve a higher position in management take intention and purpose, according to speakers at a gathering of more than 200 women in media at the recent Journalism & Women Symposium annual conference and mentoring project in Roanoke, Va.
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