Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
If You Have Only One Prayer: The Gratitude Attitude, 2018 Version
Issue 75 — November 18, 2018 Dr. Nancy O’Reilly, founder of the Women Connect 4 Good Foundation (and in full disclosure, board chair of Take The Lead) sounded exhausted when I called to ask how she and her horses were in the latest California disaster that looked on television like the fires of Hell. “It all depends on the…
Read More123 Women and The Lessons of History on Veterans Day
Issue 74 — November 11, 2018 Feast your eyes on this Washington Post infographic tracking wins by female candidates for Congress and Governorships in last week’s elections. With a few major races still undecided, there is no doubt that 2018 will go down in history as a pivotal year in US women’s history. I celebrate that. Loudly and enthusiastically.…
Read MoreCitizenship Is Leadership, and Other Reasons Not Just to Vote but to Engage in Civic Life
Issue 73 — November 4, 2018 This morning, my grandson commented that it made no sense for election day to be on Tuesday. He’s right. Election day should either be a holiday so almost anyone could get to the polls, or moved to a weekend day when the majority of people aren’t working. Even though many states have early voting…
Read More5 Really Bad Strategic Mistakes Nonprofit Leaders Often Make
Issue 72 — October 28, 2018 Last week I was privileged to keynote the annual conference of Arizona State University’s Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation by being interviewed by the Center’s Executive Director Robert Ashcraft. (A shout out here to the Center’s Nicole Anderson who organized the conference masterfully. If I may take a point of…
Read MoreWhat do you do when someone takes credit for your idea?
Issue 71 — October 22, 2018 USC Associate Professor and founder of the Annenberg Inclusion Institute Stacy Smith was spitting nails. “Nothing makes me angrier than when someone takes credit for my work,” she said. Smith and I were on a panel at Universal Music’s first She Leads program in Los Angeles. That morning before the panel, I led…
Read MoreOne Year After #metoo, How to Teach the Next Generation of Girls
Issue 69 — October 6, 2018 When I was in junior high school, I took ballroom dancing. The teacher, a woman, told us that if a misstep was made, it was always the girl’s fault. While I know now that is not true and I would tell anyone it’s a ridiculously sexist idea, the fact that it remains seared…
Read MoreThe Enemy in Your Head: How Implicit Bias Shaped Kavanaugh’s and Blasey Ford’s Testimony — and…
Issue 68— September 30, 2018 He yelled; she calmly measured her words. He displayed raw anger; she acknowledged being terrified. A furious and often aggressive Brett Kavanaugh pushed back hard on questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee. At times he deflected their questions entirely, never stating unequivocally whether he wanted an FBI investigation of the facts and…
Read MoreSistering: How Mutual Support Gives Female Philanthropists the Courage to Draw a Bigger Circle
Stacey Engle, VP for Marketing at Fierce and I shared our respective programs helping people have those difficult workplace conversations. Issue 66 — September 17, 2018 Women like to do things together. Nowhere is this more evident than in philanthropy where women’s giving circles and organizations large and small are making ripples, waves, and sometimes sea changes with…
Read MoreSerena For President
Issue 65 — September 9, 2018 I’m not a tennis player. Want to know why? I’ll reveal that in a bit. Right now I am obsessed with Serena Williams for so many reasons. First, it was the flap about her catsuit and then her tutu. But now, all things Serena have ratcheted up to the point that if anyone…
Read MoreWhat to Wear to Work: Serena’s Tutu, Kyrsten’s Shoes, and Why I Wear Red
Issue 64 — September 2, 2018 After the third interview request in a week’s time asking me to comment on what constitutes appropriate work attire for women, I finally realized the cosmic importance of the question. The wry humor in tennis great Serena Williams’ frilly tutu following on the heels of the flap about her stern black catsuit…
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