Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
The #1 Action You Can Take Today To Make Life More #GenderFair
Issue 254 — March 3, 2024
How many clip art flowers and pink figures, celebratory Women’s History Month posts have you seen already this March — and we’re just a few days into it? Somehow it seems that many people have forgotten (if they ever knew) that women needed this special month, just as February was Black History Month for the same reason — because the narratives of history have not been written with our lens, and often our accomplishments have been downright ignored — or stolen.
Read MoreFrom Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans
Issue 251 — February 5, 2024
What is more fascinating to us humans than ourselves?
Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror? Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? Don’t we love seeing our names mentioned, or being tagged on Instagram? Come on, admit it.
Read MoreWhen Leadership Requires Keeping Your Hand On the Plow
Issue 247 — December 11, 2023
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” — Alice Paul, suffragist leader and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, which a century later still is not published into the U.S. Constitution.
Read MoreShouldn’t It Be Called Women’s INequality Day?
Issue 239 - August 28, 2023
Last night, attending an Angel City Football Club soccer game (they won 3–1!), I had a tearing up moment chatting with a woman I happened to be standing next to. She had come down to Los Angeles from the Bay Area to bring her two elementary school aged daughters to the game. She said, “Can you imagine? We never got to see anything like this. The women’s team, owned by women, run by women, supported by so many women?”
I looked at her girls cheering away, waving their Angel City scarves, and felt so proud of how far we have come on the long road to equality.
It’s Time to Get Out of Your Own Way
Is your comfort zone holding you back?
Look, trust me, I know it can sometimes be hard to acknowledge that we’re the ones responsible for making progress (or lack thereof) in our lives, but the good news is we can unlearn that behavior in order to get out of our own way.
Read MoreWhat are you #Intentioning for 2022?
Issue 188 — January 3, 2022
🎆Happy New Year! What are you Intentioning for your life and leadership this brave new year of 2022? 🎆What will this year mean for you? 🎆What first step will you take to go from ambition to Intention to done?
Read MoreThe Great Returnship, or What’s a Leader to Do to About It?
Issue 182 — October 25, 2021
The buzz is everywhere now. Are you in the office yet? As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with the Shecession and the Great Resignation, now comes the Great Returnship.
And since women have lost or left more jobs than men and have been slower to return, special emphasis must be placed on Take The Lead’s goal to #putwomenatthecenter of the recovery. There are so many questions.
Is your workplace ready? Does your boss want you to come back to work in person but you aren’t so sure you are ready? Are you anxious about getting back among larger groups of people?
As Good as Pumpkin spice: Signs of Rebirth and an Intentioning Bookalogue
Issue 181 — October 18, 2021
Dear Reader,
It made me as happy as a pumpkin spice cupcake to see this sign on the carousel in Central Park when I walked by it this week:
5 lessons + 5 videos From 5 years of Take The Lead Advancing Leadership Parity by 2025
Issue 101 — July 14, 2019 This week, we mark the The 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing. People said that mission was impossible, and then it was done. Similarly, many people said it was impossible five years ago when Take The Lead began with the bold mission to achieve leadership gender parity across all sectors by 2025. After all,…
Read MoreAll About Internships: Take The Lead’s Intern Interviews Gloria Feldt
Issue 100— July 8, 2019 Ask a college student in early spring what they’re most worried about, and I guarantee it won’t be their finals. It will be the dreaded internship search. I am Anna Tropiano (pictured right), a Political Science and Writing student and an intern at Take The Lead this summer. As a rising…
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