Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Women, Wealth, and Power: What We Can Learn from Lilly Ledbetter’s Courage
Issue 2845 — April 21, 2025 Sometimes, what you want to say is better said by others. And sometimes articles write themselves as a result. That’s the case with my “Sum of the Week” blogpost today. My heart is so full of joy and appreciation for the powerful film “Lilly,” about the long fight for…
Read MoreThat Time I Didn’t Negotiate My Pay — and What Happened Then
Issue 2844 —April 14, 2025 True confession. Like many women, early in my career, I felt so lucky to get work that was meaningful to me that I typically said, “Thank you,” got right to work, and never even thought about negotiating based on what the marketplace would bear. The first time I remember being…
Read MoreCourage 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 MoreLilly and Judy ✴️ Historic Calls to Action
Issue 2841 — March 10, 2025 What an amazing International Women’s Day 2025 I was privileged to experience! It was equal measure inspiring celebrations of women’s progress and passionate calls to action to change the state of the world for women, where rights won are being lost and many protections of equal treatment are being erased a…
Read MoreHappy Women’s History Month?
Issue 2840 — March 3, 2025 On the third day of #womenshistorymonth, I’m reflecting on promises fulfilled and unfulfilled of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. I attended it in Beijing in 1995. If you were there, drop a comment below. I would love to know your thoughts and experiences. I was in…
Read MoreKnow Your History: Kendrick Lamar Makes Legacy During Black History Month
Issue 2838 — February 10, 2025 It’s heresy, I know, but you don’t normally find me watching the Super Bowl. However, dinner at a friend’s home during the annual Big Game was served around a television with the game on. It turns out I am glad. Sorry, Kansas City Chiefs. Congratulations, Philadelphia Eagles. But thanks…
Read MoreSubject: Today! You Can Lead the Change in 2025 (Let Me Explain)
This is my last message of 2024. And, yes, I am going to ask you to make a year-end gift to Take The Lead. But please read to the end, regardless, because there’s important information. A decade ago, after I found that despite being half the workforce, women held only 18% of senior leadership positions,…
Read More**Action Required: How to Turn Your Fear into Power**
Issue 279 — November 11, 2024 “Don’t ever give up. You have power. And don’t ever listen to anyone who tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before…This is a time to organize, mobilize, and stay engaged.” — Kamala Harris As the dust settles after the November 5th election, many of…
Read MoreCredit Due: Taylor Swift’s Advice About Power and Female Friendship
Issue 257 — April 22, 2024
I’m listening to Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, looking for inspiration for my more-or-less weekly column, “The Sum.” As in the sum of the week, what it means or what I learned about my favorite topics — women, power, and leadership — from whatever happened during the past week.
The last couple of weeks for me were all Beyonce all the time with the release and immediate race to the top of the C&W charts of her album Cowboy Carter. (How many versions of dancing to “Texas Hold ‘Em” have you seen on social media so far? I’m obsessed.)
Read MoreThe #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.
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