Now Women CAN Win
Fund Athena… that’s the name of a new venture aimed at getting tens of millions of investment dollars in the hands of women business leaders with great ideas. It’s about time. For the most part women-lead businesses have been starved for capital. Only 2.7% of venture capital is invested in women-led or owned businesses. Yet, […]
How to Create a Women-Friendly Workplace
Last night I served on a panel discussion in front of hundreds of women working for a well-known global tech company. I gave them three specific habits designed to evolve their culture to a higher state. (More on that in a minute.) The challenge topic was “How can women better support each other in the […]
Shortcuts to Expressing Your Purpose Every Day
What if there was something you could do that was absolutely free that was proven to: Give you a longer life Protect you against heart attack or stroke Ensure you are half as likely to get Alzheimer’s Disease Protect you against depression, anxiety, obesity and insomnia Cause you to be happier and healthier at all […]
Why You Are Blind to Opportunities
I just got a whole lot smarter by understanding more about what makes me dumb. I just got back from a three-hour workshop presented by Mahzarin Banaji, who is an award-winning Harvard professor specializing in how our brain biases secretly control our thinking. Her book is called Blind Spot, Hidden Biases of Good People. We […]
7 Effective Things You Probably Don’t Get From Your Manager
We want to be empowered. Google’s internal research reveals that personal work empowerment is the second highest value that Google employees have. We want to be able to do our work when we want, where we want, and with whom we want. Psychologist Edward Deci confirmed that autonomy is one of the core motivators the […]
Why Your Loyalty Might Be Killing You
Loyalty is the most overvalued value. The plea for loyalty is almost always invoked when loyalty is not deserved. When people demand your loyalty what they’re usually trying to do is escape accountability. I am not saying loyalty has no value but rather being loyal to people and organizations who do not keep their promises, […]
Women–Three Strategies to Build Your Confidence and Inner Power
I recently received an e-mail from Barry Crane of Yahoo with a link to an article written by a pretty ticked off woman who is sick and tired of being told that women have less confidence than men. She even quoted some social researcher claims that there is no hard evidence that women have low […]
How to Make Your Idea Change the World
Just last week I was sitting in a meeting at the Gap building overlooking San Francisco Bay. I was in the spirited conversation with Eric Severson the senior co-leader of human resources for Gap globally. Since they have over 130,000 employees it is a very big job. What we were talking about is how he […]
Two Million in Jail in the US. If You Were in Charge, What Would You Do?
As a leadership consultant I cannot help but look at the leaders of our institutions and wonder, “is this really the best we can do?” It appears to me that we have reached a level called systems failure. It appears to me that we have reached a level called systems failure. That’s simply a way […]
How to Lead When You Have No Power
Last week I was sitting in conference room with three women managers of one of the largest technology companies in the world. They were very frustrated. Two of them have been with the company for over a decade. All had engineering degrees and one had topped off her education with a MBA. But none had […]
