Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Equal Rights for All: On MLK Day, How RBG Logic Can Advance the ERA
Issue 2836 — January 20, 2025 On this long weekend when MLK day falls on inauguration day, and much of the country faces a big chill, a long overdue step forward for women’s rights was announced by President Biden: the ratification into the U.S. Constitution of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA for short). Many of…
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 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 MoreHow to Lead Like a Woman: Podcast Episode with Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt, published author, former President of Planned Parenthood, and CEO, and co-founder of Take the Lead, discusses with Mission Matters host Adam Torres how intentioning can help women lead a better world for all. Explore Take The Lead and Gloria’s new book, Mission Matters: Mission-Based Leaders Share Inspiring Stories on Power and Purpose (Women Leaders Edition, Volume 1).…
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 MoreThank You Lilly Ledbetter, Equal Pay Champion, 4/14/34–10/12/24
Issue 275 — October 14, 2024 I was so sad to learn of the death of Lilly Ledbetter, a leader of the movement for pay equity. She was moved by her own story to fight for equal pay regardless of gender first for herself, and then for all women. After learning that her pay had been…
Read MoreHow Kamala Harris Aces the 9 Leadership Power Tools (Even if She Doesn’t Know It)
Issue 274 — September 30, 2024 Love politics? Hate it? Whatever your POV is, in today’s chaotic political landscape, people are yearning for effective leaders. I began this 3-part series last week with a look at the difference between Power Over and Power TO leadership styles. I called it “Hammering Power” to reflect the metaphor I…
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 MoreLovely Ketanji: How She Turned Bias on Its Head and Made It Her Superpower
Issue 272 — September 9, 2024 I had eagerly awaited the publication of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One, since I learned that my talented friend Jamia Wilson, Vice President/Executive Editor at Penguin Random House, secured the plum of editing the book. Finally, the book launched on September 3, 2024, in Harlem’s…
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