Leadership
Courage to Lead: 3 Moves to Unlock Big Impact
Issue 2842— March 24, 2025 Anxiety is in the air. You can feel it everywhere — layoffs, political uncertainty, the gnawing fear that the earth is shifting beneath our feet. In times like these, leadership can feel impossible. How can you lead when you don’t even know what the next week will bring? The truth…
Read MoreNew Year 🥳: Why 2025 Doesn’t Need a New You!
Issue 2834— January 6, 2024 As the calendar turns to a new year, the phrase “new year, new you” inevitably surfaces in advertising campaigns, social media posts, and sales on clothing and cosmetics. I’ll admit it: I have a negative reaction to that message. What’s wrong with the old you or me? Yes, the start…
Read More🙏🏽 Giving Thanks + 🦃 The Turkey’s View + 🥔 My Secret Potato Roll Recipe
Issue 281 — November 25, 2024 Our editorial director and newsletter writer Michele Weldon is taking Thanksgiving week off, so I’m taking this space to say THANK YOU to each and every one of you. Many thanks for your support — whether as a donor, a participant in one of our leadership development programs, an…
Read MoreThrough the Glass Ceiling: ̶ ̶5̶ ̶7 Strategies for Women
Issue 280 — November 18, 2024 How often do you click on an article because the title promises you’re going to learn something new or fix a problem you’ve been struggling with — and it turns out to do neither? I clicked on this one because the title grabbed me: “Through the Glass Ceiling: 5 Strategies for…
Read More3 Reasons Why Voting Is Leadership
Issue 277 — October 28, 2024 This is a nonpartisan statement, and I believe it to the core of my being. Voting is #leadership. Do you agree? Or does it sound far-fetched? Maybe you think my mind is simply addled from the media barrage of political ads and stories leading up to Election Day, November…
Read MoreHammering Power: Part 1 of a 3 Part Series on how Kamala Harris Uses the 9 Leadership Power Tools
Issue 273 — September 16, 2024 “When the only tool you have is a hammer, you are likely to treat everything you see as a nail.” The hammer is a metaphor I use to deconstruct and reconstruct the meaning of power, so that women will embrace their hammer of power with confidence, authenticity, and joy…
Read MoreThe New Greatest Generation: Commencement Address by Dede Thompson Bartlett
Issue 259— May 20, 2024
It’s challenging to think of an original idea when called upon to give a commencement speech, but my friend and International Women’s Forum colleague Dede Thompson Bartlett gave an outstanding address to the NYU Tandon School of Engineering class of 2024 on May 16, 2024.
Read MorePerplexed? Your Guide to Leadership at the Moral Crossroads
Issue 258 — May 6, 2024
Leadership lessons come from all kinds of places. Ever since I saw the 1986 movie “Crossroads” (not the later one with Britney Spears!), the metaphor of the crossroads has been in my head.
Read MoreParallel Pandemics, Convergent Solutions
Issue 129 — June 1, 2020
We are in a profoundly disruptive time. A time when just a week ago, I could see many opportunities to reshape a better world post-pandemic. That’s until another pandemic, a pandemic of racism was laid so bare that layered on top of COVID it feels like a leaden blanket we’ll never be able to throw off.
As New York Times contributing editor Roxane Gay says, “Eventually, doctors will find a coronavirus vaccine, but black people will continue to wait, despite the futility of hope, for a cure for racism.”
Read MoreThe Sum: Mother’s Day in a Pandemic
Issue 128 — May 10, 2020
The phones are ringing, the texts are buzzing, social media notifications are pinging, and the Zooms and Zoom Rooms are being scheduled throughout the day to connect with family members so we can wish each other Happy Mother’s Day (almost) in person.