Posts Tagged ‘leadership lessons’
Seriously? Must a Woman Be Like a Man to Get Ahead?
That question comes up every time I speak with women about their career aspirations.
A second question just as surely follows: if we can’t be authentically who we are, why would we want to “succeed” in male-dominated organizations or professions? Many women who leave the corporate world to stay home with children or enter entrepreneurial or nonprofit fields—or alternately, remain quietly in their jobs put only to find themselves doing the work but not getting the promotions—say they do so because they don’t want to become like men.
Yet all signs point to a potential breakthrough moment for women even as we debate the pros and cons of taking on male camouflage.
Read MoreLeadership Lessons From Send Yourself Roses
Our best selling book, Send Yourself Roses, contains lessons Kathleen Turner learned from her own life, and she shares them in hopes they will be of practical value to readers, especially other women. To name a few: See your moment and seize it, Honey. If you feel sexy, so you are. Don’t repeat your successes. The…
Read MoreEliot Spitzer’s Leadership Lessons
This is not a joke. Really. As I was writing yesterday’s post ” The Bigger They are, the Harder They Fall (and Vice Versa)”, I realized there are important leadership lessons in this Shakespearean tragedy. Besides the obvious one in the title of the post, or maybe two including including its double entendre, I mentioned…
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