10 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs ? The Educated Entrepreneur's Blog A fellow entrepreneur gave me a slight nudge today that motivated me to post today’s blog. I think you will certainly find value in it as it incorporates some of the best minds of the 21st century. Remember….. The secret to learning as an entrepreneur is to mix equal parts of inspiration and perspiration. Hard work without a vision is futile, while a great idea without execution is similarly worthless. Seth Godin on Standing Out: What makes you so special? Like this: Like Loading... Feature: A Continuum of Leadership Development: A Model for Sustained Success for Women Leaders in Academic Medicine - Faculty Vitae - Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA) - Member Communities By Page S. Morahan, Ph.D., Sally E. Rosen, M.D., Katharine A. Gleason, M.P.H., and Rosalyn C. Richman, M.A. "The goal is for men and women to share the stage, to create a culture where they can express the full range of their capacities—so that women can express the forceful, dynamic leadership qualities they have without being penalized, and men can express the intuitive, empathetic qualities they have that are often not valued and that get suppressed by a totally male culture." The 2008 Women in U.S. This article addresses the challenges of leadership development, paying particular attention to the circumstances of women leaders in academic medicine. The Leadership Continuum Model Rare is the senior executive who carries a single leadership position throughout his or her career. The Competencies of the Leadership Continuum Self-efficacy is defined as having realistic confidence that one can successfully perform an activity. The Phases of the Leadership Continuum References 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Philosophy Bro Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership If one has misdiagnosed a problem, then one is unlikely to prescribe an effective cure. This is the situation regarding the scarcity of women in top leadership. Because people with the best of intentions have misread the symptoms, the solutions that managers are investing in are not making enough of a difference. That there is a problem is not in doubt. In 1986 the Wall Street Journal’s Carol Hymowitz and Timothy Schellhardt gave the world an answer: “Even those few women who rose steadily through the ranks eventually crashed into an invisible barrier. Times have changed, however, and the glass ceiling metaphor is now more wrong than right. Metaphors matter because they are part of the storytelling that can compel change. Walls All Around A better metaphor for what confronts women in their professional endeavors is the labyrinth. Vestiges of prejudice. It is a well-established fact that men as a group still have the benefit of higher wages and faster promotions.
Investing in Women: Infographic I recently collaborated with the female founder of Piktochart to create this infographic about Investing in Women. Piktochart is an infographic editor that helps non-designers make information beautiful. Piktochart was launched in end of March 2012 and now has over 26,000 free users and 1,200 paid users. Embed Code: This Infographic was reposted @ Carolyn Van’s Tumblr Blog ; Christine Goodwin’s PandaWhale; Women2.0 blog; TheNextWomen; GirlsinTech; The Story Exchange; Project Eve Infographic: Where are the Women Directors? | Women and Hollywood Fandor, a streaming movie service with a huge library of global independent films, has put together an infographic on the lack of women directors working within the Hollywood system. It does shine some light on the success women directors have had in independent and documentary filmmaking. Check it out below.
What Do Women Want? At Work, That Is… [INFOGRAPHIC] What do you want at work? What does success mean to you? What is your biggest challenge at work? We asked these very questions (and more) to thousands of professional women around the world to better understand the challenges women face in their careers, what success means to them now and how that’s changed over the past 5-10 years. While some stark differences emerged by country, we uncovered some key global trends. These findings emerged from our ‘What Women Want @ Work’ study, released today in celebration and support of International Women’s Day on March 8th. So what’s changed? Not surprisingly, our study tells us that working women the world over are looking for one thing above others – greater flexibility. Other big issues that the study surfaced included concerns over lack of investment in professional development and lack of a clear career path.
Rise of women in today's workforce :: Healthcare Marketing + Communications Today, there is a quiet change taking place in the American workforce. No, it’s not the explosion of Millennials, or the refusal of Boomers to retire, or the BYOD trend! The revolution is in the rise of women in the workforce – both in the number of women employed and positions of seniority. Sources :: Sarah Sladek of XYZ University has assembled the data and an infographic has been produced by OPENForum.com. I have also extracted facts from a study from Booz & Co. and the US Department of Labor. Here are the findings. In the coming decade over one billion women will enter the global economy. Despite the determination and ambition, women will still face several issues preventing them from achieving an equal stake in the workforce. A study from Booz & Co. [1] The care economy. [2] Inclusion. Yet, its not all that bad … More good news is that women under the age of 30, earn eight percent more than men the same age Where do young women out-earn young men by the biggest percentage? Like this:
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases For the last quarter century, many fought hard to overcome gender discrimination in the workplace by raising awareness, strengthening antidiscrimination policies, and encouraging more women to enter the corporate world. At first blush, that work appeared to pay off. After all, as of 2010, women made up 46.7 percent of the US labor force, and filled more than half of management, professional, and related occupations. “Women’s progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years.” But even with increasing representation, women still fill less than 15 percent of executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies and make up just 3.6 percent of CEOs. The glass ceiling, it seems, moved higher up the organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. What went wrong? How people become leaders Events Women's 50th Identity work is a process shaped by loops of action and feedback.