Ignoring women 'holds back UK economy' Women in Leadership. Don’t Just 'Lean In': 10 Ways Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders Should Take Action Now. Standing almost a foot taller than most boys throughout my adolescence had at least one clear benefit: I’ve always been a girl’s girl.
Whether bonding over shared passions, revealing our deepest secrets, or supporting each other through challenging times, I wouldn’t be who I am today without the amazing women in my life. Now the founder of a soon-to-launch tech startup called AMP, it’s no surprise that I’ve found myself at events hosted by Girls in Tech LA, Women 2.0 and Dell’s Women Empowerment Network. It was at The Next Billion conference in San Francisco last month that I just couldn’t shake a common feeling I’d been having at these events. Something was missing (besides men)—there was a palpable lack of guardedness or need to prove, creating space instead for genuine laughter, authentic displays of vulnerability, and wisdom-packed lessons learned. Contrast this with intense recent criticisms of Yahoo!’ Surely, we need more men investing in women. Project Maya - Anna Evely. Barbra Streisand: 8 must-see talks for women. Must-Have Job Skills in 2013. Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way - Dorie Clark.
By Dorie Clark | 9:00 AM November 22, 2012 It’s often hard to deduce how someone becomes known as a leader in their field.
Sometimes, it seems they’ve always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious. One minute, you’ve never heard of Eric Ries, and the next he’s on the cover of Inc. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. But occasionally, there is a glimpse into the process of how someone can emerge, quickly and powerfully, into the public consciousness. A while back, I was talking with fellow HBR blogger Boris Groysberg. Skills development comes first. Build your platform. From Science to Business: Preparing Female Scientists and Engineers for Successful Transitions into Entrepreneurship: Summary of a Workshop. Scientists, engineers, and medical professionals play a vital role in building the 21st- century science and technology enterprises that will create solutions and jobs critical to solving the large, complex, and interdisciplinary problems faced by society: problems in energy, sustainability, the environment, water, food, disease, and healthcare.
As a growing percentage of the scientific and technological workforce, women need to participate fully not just in finding solutions to technical problems, but also in building the organizations responsible for the job creation that will bring these solutions to market and to bear on pressing issues. To accomplish this, it is important that more women in science and engineering become entrepreneurs in order to start new companies; create business units inside established organizations, mature companies, and the government; and/or function as social entrepreneurs focused on societal issues. Best bits: What do you need to start up a social enterprise?
Don't get bogged down by analysis paralysis if you've got a good business idea. Whether I'm looking at plans being submitted to the Prince's Trust Youth Business Scotland by young people seeking funding or whether it is through acting as a judge for any of the many entrepreneurial competitions, I've seen a huge variation in the lengths to which people will go with the amount of detail they include.
So, how far should you go when it comes down to research, planning and putting your thoughts to paper? Will you miss an opportunity by planning to the "nth" degree or will your business be much the better in the longer term for all the detail? Hung up about this question, I recently decided to speak with a few Youth Business Scotland clients at one of our networking events to get a feel for their thoughts on this subject.
One of the entrepreneurs that I spoke with is Darren Lester whose business is based in Edinburgh. Persuading, Negotiating, Influencing Skills. PERSUADING involves being able to convince others to take appropriate action.
NEGOTIATING involves being able to discuss and reach a mutually satisfactory agreement. INFLUENCING encompasses both of these. The "Bitch In The Boardroom" Stereotype: Women Speak Out About Success And Likability. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, is undoubtedly a mover and shaker.
The woman behind Mark Zuckerberg also happens to be the social network’s highest paid exec and has the sort of resume any successful business person (man or woman) would love to have--think chief of staff for the U.S. Treasury and VP of global online sales at Google. Who Are Your Organization's Entrepreneurs? - Bill J. Bonnstetter and Ron J. Bonnstetter.
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Bonnstetter and Ron J. Bonnstetter | 9:52 AM February 29, 2012 How useful would it be to identify the problem-solvers within your business? They’re called entrepreneurs, and not all of them are created the same. The ability to identify entrepreneurs empowers organizations to effectively manage their workforce. Identifying these individuals is possible long before they enter the workplace. Early findings from this research describe two types of entrepreneurs emerging: How to be a predictable success - Do Lectures.
Doug Richard's School for Startups.