Posts Tagged ‘women and leadership’
How Are We Doing? 10 Years of Take The Lead
Issue 253 — February 26, 2024
The late bombastic New York mayor, Ed Koch, was famous for going around the city asking, “How am I doing?”
So as Take The Lead kicks off its 10th anniversary year, exactly 10 years after its first big public launch event at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium, we’re asking you, “How are we doing?”
Read MoreFrom Lucy to Leadership Part 2: Our Origins’ Central Question
Issue 252 — February 11, 2024
Last weekend, I went to see the movie I think should win Academy Awards in every category: Ava DuVernay’s rendition of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
After writing last week about the discovery of the 3.2 million year old hominid fossil Lucy in Hadar, Ethiopia 50 years ago by paleoanthropologist and founder of the Institute of Human Origins Donald Johanson, I wanted to explore further the question of why we humans are the way we are.
Read More🚀 Fuel the Future: Champion Women’s Leadership in 2024
Issue 249— January 1, 2024
I loved this question posed on social media by Sophia Yen, a longtime friend and the founder of Pandia Health. She asked us to “Brag to me about one thing you did in 2023.”
Read MoreJust Listen: The Secret Power of Conflict and Controversy
Issue 248 — December 18, 2023
Oftentimes well-meaning men ask me how they can help women to advance in their careers.
I answer, “Listen. Just listen.”
Now comes a breathtaking example of what can happen when men don’t listen to women:
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 MoreHuge Thank You to Program Partners for Parity!
We’re soooo grateful to these organizations for supporting the Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference, to be held Saturday, August 26 in person at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA in Los Angeles and streaming everywhere.
Got your ticket already? Yay! Want to see the agenda and buy your tickets? Go here.
Read MorePower Over vs. Power TO — Finally, It’s A Recognized Thing
Issue 233 — June 26, 2023
I took a class in Tai Chi last weekend. The teacher started by describing the practice as “intentional movement.”
Intentional movement is a useful framework for thinking about one’s own behavior as a leader and for interpreting or attempting to interpret the behavior of other leaders.
Read MoreWhat’s Tina Got to Do With Women’s Leadership?
Issue 230 — May 28, 2023
Back in the day, a friend of mine used to say that she wanted to BE Tina Turner.
As the tributes flowed following Turner’s death on May 24 at 83, it was obvious that she had an equally significant impact on countless people around the world. (In Australia, the whole country stopped to dance to “Nutbush City Limits.”)
Read MoreFlash: There Are No Obstacles, Only Opportunities!
Issue 227 — May 1, 2023
Tell me. What’s the biggest obstacle you have faced on your path to leadership?
Here’s a secret for you.
*There are no obstacles. Only opportunities.*
Read MoreArdern/Wojcicki/Sturgeon/Sandberg: Are Women Leaders Who Leave Setting Women Back?
Issue 222 — February 20, 2023
I love this phrase from Susan Wojcicki’s letter, announcing she is stepping down as CEO of YouTube: “It’s an incredibly important time for Google — it reminds me of the early days — incredible product and technology innovation, huge opportunities, and a healthy disregard for the impossible.” (Emphasis mine)
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