tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69120597729583919202012-02-07T16:58:20.785-05:00News and info about and for women leaders in organizationsSusan Colantuonohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10018302238954330875noreply@blogger.comBlogger1511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912059772958391920.post-44031918422561653382012-02-07T14:12:00.001-05:002012-02-07T16:58:20.795-05:00

A while ago I sent a colleague who is a strong critical thinker our new research on gender dynamics that constrict talent pipelines. The findings motivated him to rethink some of their talent development strategies. In addition, he sent along this question."I’m curious why female business and MBA grads don’t fare as well as male business and MBA grads.  Both graduate with similar education and

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About every other year I use February to talk about love in the organizational context. This year I'm inspired by a presentation I saw Brendon Burchard make in which he said that at the end of our lives, each of us wants to be able to give positive answers to 3 questions: Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?

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Back in the 1970s, progressive companies addressed the challenge of women's advancement issues with many tools including multi-day workshops that directly surfaced and addressed gender-based stereotypes. Does that surprise you? It probably does because since then, companies avoid this topic like the plague. This in spite of the fact that studies continue to point to barriers created by

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41% of new board appointments July - Sept, 2011 were women. What can you learn from these women who joined boards in 2011? Aaron's Inc added Cynthia Day, SEVP and COO of Citizens Altera Corp added Elisha Finney, Corporate SVP and CFO Varian Medial Systems Ambassadors Group, Inc added Nilofer Merchant, business strategist Cabot Corp added Sue Rataj, retired BP executive Dana Holding,

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As you know, I am sometimes asked to review new books and you're going to enjoy this lesson passed on from the latest. It's The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy, publisher of SUCCESS magazine.  He writes about how small changes today will make a big difference over time - that's the compound effect. It works for money and it works in other

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Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox is the first African American woman to be CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company (and the first woman CEO to succeed another woman). It's notoriously difficult to get an interview with her - I know, I've tried. But recently when a member of Xerox' compensation committee asked her to speak at the WICT leadership conference, she did.  Here's her advice ...and important

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Before the great recession, an author in Canada, reported that women executives have a harder time than their male counterparts finding a new job after they've been let go. If that isn't reason enough to focus a portion of your energy on developing a smart strategic network (as differentiated from a collection of friends), a new study by Marie Lalanne and Paul Seabright of the Toulouse

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Ever since I spoke at the W.I.N. conference in Rome last month I've been thinking a lot about career advice given to women over the past 40 years. Much of the advice hasn't changed although the words might have changed. We've been told and continue to be told to: Speak up, be assertive, ask Get a mentor (40 years ago the definition was the same as today's idea of a sponsor) Dress for success,

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Recently one of the organizers of an international women's conference where I had spoken grabbed me to talk with one of the conference attendees - I'll call her Felicia. I had no idea why I was asked to speak with Felicia, but as we chatted I learned that Felicia had come to the conference as a vendor in the marketplace. Because the marketplace wasn't the focus of the conference, she was

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A recent Small Business UK post reports: "Women are breaking through the ‘glass ceiling’ and have increasing employment opportunities, particularly in terms of career advancement and remuneration, suggests research. More than three quarters of HR directors (78 per cent) do not believe that men have an advantage over women in the workplace, according to a study of 180 respondents by staffing

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Ron Ashkenas has a great article on Forbes today with the title Are you Wasting Money on Training He cites a major corporation that did away with a very expensive and exclusive leadership development program for its top 400 when... "...six months later none of the participants could say that their business or function was any better off as a result of the program; and few could cite anything

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Wage Gap Stats  A quick post because I've never seen these stats delivered before. And I hope to never see such a wide gap again. As reported by the Atlanta Business Chronicle based on Bureau of Labor Statistics. The wage tap is over 20% in 5 sectors including 29.9% in the category of management, business and financial operations. "The 7.35 million women in the management, business and financial

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When Google merged ALL of my accounts (why the heck did they do that?) I couldn't figure out how to log into blogger. Finally, they created a fix. It's good to be back. Leadership Lessons: What Men Know...about Mentoring Recently a man who serves as an executive sponsor of his organization's women's initiative attended a presentation I gave. Having heard

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Enough already! The question has been answered. Yes, Virginia, a woman can be a mother and have a successful career. So, on Mother's Day 2011, let's finally put the debate to bed. Need proof? Of the F500 women CEOs past, present and announced, nearly every one of them has been a mother/stepmother - and often to 2 or more children. In honor of these virtual mentors from whom we can learn so

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Recently a friend of my son's told me that a guy in her office is "kind of creepy" and made comments the other day about liking her shoes. I asked her what she did about it and she said nothing and that she was going to wait a few months and hope he stops. This is a very common responses - especially among women early in their careers. I suggested that she needs to start as she means to go

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I am a great fan of Jim Kristie's. He is the editor and associate publisher of Directors & Boards and has had a long term interest in women on boards. Here's his most recent update (with apologies for wholesale quoting!). It represents good news for those who care about greater representation of women on corporate boards. "(Directors & Boards) has been documenting for the past two years

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Over the years, I've been involved with Linkage through their Global Institute for Leadership Development and their Women in Leadership Summit. So I was delighted when I was contacted to take part in a series of interviews on leadership for a global research study on the identification and development of leaders. The result of this work will be in an upcoming book by Phil Harkins, the CEO of

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Are you a Businesswoman or a Woman in Business?Earlier this month I enjoyed delivering a webinar to a number of Professional Women in Healthcare. The topic was Think Like a CEO: Developing Business Acumen. Implicit in the topic is the question, do you think of yourself as a "woman in business" or as a businesswoman. I recommend that your answer should be that you think of yourself as a

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We are half way through Women's History Month and past International Women's Day. It is a month to reflect on the status of women - how far we've come, progress under attack and what's left to do. For Leading Women, March is also our anniversary month - 8 years ago, Jane Metzger was our first breakfast speaker. Since then much has changed for Leading Women and we're so grateful that you've

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March 8th is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and I am spending it with the Global Women's Council of a F500 company. For me this is a fitting way to celebrate both the accomplishments and highlight the steps yet to take in corporate America - the women in the room have made it close to the top of this venerable company, and yet in all its history it has never had a woman CEO.

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Here at Leading Women we're obviously big fans of networking...by that we mean the cultivation of strategic relationships inside and outside your organization. Why? First, because getting the job done almost always requires cooperation with others. Second, because the higher you go in your organization, the more important become external networks - specifically those with organizations that

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I generally try to stay away from things overly political, but I see frightening trends  (and actual votes) at the state and national level that will take women back to the 1950s when we had no ability to legally plan for families. And the recent vote to de-fund Planned Parenthood could mean that low income women will also have less access to maternal health care. Why does this matter to women

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A while back, I commented on the ForbesWoman LinkedIn group to a discussion on personal branding. The question was, "are businesswomen avoiding the spotlight, not as focused on Personal Branding as men?" Here's my response: "My observations  confirm that women are less likely to seek the spotlight and develop a professional brand by

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People who know me, know that one of my favorite quotes is this: "No one cares the storms you encounter, they only care did you bring in the ship."In the context of business, this means that no one cares about the problems you're having as you work to get your job done. In other words, there's no whining in business. I find a way to work this into most of my programs because I encounter far too

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In her excellent book The Male Factor, Shaunti Feldhahn describes the difference between how many women and men view their worlds. Men view the "work world" and the "personal world" as distinct disconnected spheres of activity. Women tend to view their "work worlds" as circles within the spheres of their "personal worlds". There are benefits to both views. Today, Michelle Obama described a good

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Quotas have been much in the news lately. The drive to bring greater numbers of women to the World Economic Forum raised the issue once again. The WEF goal is to have the100 corporate "strategic partners" of this year's World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland – a group that includes companies like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and News Corp.  —  bring at least one woman

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Time for another smorgasbord. 10 stories from the past few weeks - many from abroad: Why You Should Want More Women at the Top by Selena Maranjian of the Motley Fool. Selena recounts studies that show the correlation between women at the top of organizations and operational performance. Of course correlation isn't the same as causation. I always explain this correlation this way. Organizations

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Recently at TED Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook spoke about the importance of women staying at the table and what we can do to continue to make advances to the C-suite. Together with Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, Sheryl's has been a familiar name when talking about women in technology. Marissa Mayer, VP of geographic and local services at Google is another familiar name. One of the first

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Catalyst released its 2010 Census and it's receiving a bit of coverage (Today online, Seek4Media, MyStateline, Reuters, LifeInc). Conventional wisdom over the summer was that business had been experiencing a "mancession" and that we were experiencing "The End of Men."  I didn't believe a word of it, but because the facts are in opposition to the new conventional wisdom, this release by Catalyst

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 In a Forbes.com article, titled " Why Business Schools are Failing Women," Selena Rezvani and Sandie Taylor explain that most business schools do a poor job recruiting and addressing the needs of women. With this I wholeheartedly agree. But within the article that I came across very disturbing information. They write, here are common questions that women ask: "--Can I be liked and respected?--

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Since last month when I signed Vision 2020's Declaration of Equality (please go and sign it here: http://www.drexel.edu/vision2020/get_involved/declaration/ ) the Senate failed to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act because the entire republican block including Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted against it. That's the 2 steps back. Now, for the 1 step forward - this week as reported in the Iowa

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This morning I commented on the ForbesWoman LinkedIn group to a discussion on personal branding. The question was, "are businesswomen avoiding the spotlight, not as focused on Personal Branding as men?" Here's my response: "My research confirms that women are less likely to seek the spotlight and develop a professional brand by displaying

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In the chapter in No Ceiling, No Walls where I discuss the importance of living your values I highlight Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi because she has steadfastly held to and her commitment to non-violence and action for democracy. I'm delighted to report that after 7 and a half years under house arrest,  she has been released by the military junta in control of the government of

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News from our Kiwi Friends... In its Census of Women's Participation, published today, the Human Rights Commission outlines where women are losing past gains, and is particularly critical of private companies. "The corporate sector remains an embarrassment for New Zealand in terms of diversity of governance, at a time when women are increasingly consumers, customers, clients, employers,

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This week, the Calvert Group, a socially responsible mutual fund, released a study of the Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100 companies and the findings are mixed. While some of the companies -  are doing very well, others fall short. "We are very concerned about the fact that women and minorities continue to be underrepresented at the highest levels of management," says Calvert Group

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Here I am getting ready for the second day of the Vision 2020 Conversation about Women and Leadership. Yesterday Rosemary Greco, Vision 2020 co-chair, said, "Democracy is not sustainable without full equality" and full equality seems far from reach. Most of us know the stats, I can pretty much summarize them as Geena Davis (actress and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media)  did

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Here's our entry into British Airways Faces of Opportunity competition. Please vote for us here (you can vote once a day until 10/29): http://britishairways.promo.eprize.com/contest/view_gallery_link?id=1472 As effective as virtual meeting platforms are, there is nothing like face to face meetings to launch our Leading Women affiliate in India. We have selected Radhika and Girija to be our

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The World Economic Forum's 2010 Gender Gap Report is out. The U.S. has made it into the top 20 countries for the first time ever. The Global Gender Gap Report 2010 Published 12 October 2010

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In a surprising twist when analyzing a study on collective intelligence, researchers found that "...the number of women in a group had significant predictive power. “We didn’t design this study to focus on the gender effect,” Malone said. “That was a surprise to us.” One implication is that the level of collective intelligence should keep rising along with the proportion of women in a group.

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This year, FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women conference ran virtually thanks to Unisfair.com and so from the comfort of my office, between calls, I was able to listen and watch to women who are among the most powerful in the country. I've been searching for videos of those who spoke and here are some you will be able to watch. The entire conference is supposed to be up "on demand" but isn't yet.

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$$Wage Gap$$According to the census bureau (and as reported by USA Today) the wage gap between women and men is smaller than it has ever been. But is this good news? I'd say not. The reason is that so many men have lost good-paying jobs...jobs that might never return. Here's how related trends break down: "Women have held their own or increased dominance in the skilled health care trades —

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Okay, I'm Italian American by heritage so indulge me. The Telegraph reports that there is finally a woman gondolier in Venice. Giorgia Boscolo makes quite a splash (hopefully not literally) "Ms Boscolo's achievement is truly remarkable as since gondoliers took to the waterways of Venice in 1094, there has never been a woman among them..."The guys joked with me that a woman would not be able

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Going, g o i n g, g o n e WSJ reports that women are leaving financial institutions at a rate far greater than their male counterparts (see above). "In the past 10 years, 141,000 women, or 2.6% of female workers in finance, left the industry. The ranks of men grew by 389,000 in that period, or 9.6%, according to a review of data provided by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The

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This summer Mary Sammons, resigned as CEO of RiteAid.This morning I read of Brenda Barnes' resignation as CEO of Sara Lee to focus on her health after suffering a stroke earlier in the year.For the past few years, I've been able to post photos of the 15 women F500 CEOs, whom I call "your virtual mentors" in my book No Ceiling, No Walls. The important message they convey comes through their wide

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Back in March, the World Economic Forum (have I already mentioned that I love their research?) issued a new report on the gender gap in worldwide corporations. The Corporate Gender Gap Report is a complement to the Global Gender Gap Report and highlights one of the areas that the WEF analyzes to come up with its country rankings. Here are excerpts from the news release about the report. I'll

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Earlier this month, Jim Kristie of Directors and Boards reported good news on women on boards."Last year, women represented 39% of all new board appointments! That is up from the previous record high of 25% representation in 2008. And way way up from the more typical 13% when we first started recording board appointments in 1994.That 39% figure represents 165 women out of 424 board positions

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I love soccer! Although I played field hockey, I cheered for my brother when he played. Needless to say, I've been watching the World Cup. (Congratulations to Spain!)While watching, I couldn't help but imagine if the World Economic Forum were able to turn the Global Gender Gap Report into a live action competition.Countries would compete to demonstrate how they had improved the status of women in

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Last month was the 47th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act and women are still suing for wage and gender discrimination - e.g. the Novartis award in May(see prior post), and also the class action suit against WalMart that got the go-ahead last month.So, why 40 years later are women still behind in compensation, too few in the executive suite and experiencing blatant discrimination?Surely, there are

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The FactsUntil last week, the largest award that I knew of in a gender discrimination lawsuit was a $54 million award against Morgan Stanley. That has been trounced by the $250 million in punitive damages and $3.3 million already awarded in compensatory damages (with more to come*) to be paid by Novartis. The jury found the company guilty of paying women less than men, promoting fewer of them and

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Executing Executive CompensationIn a recent Bloomberg News article about F500 women CEO compensation, a compensation expert was quoted as saying,“When you see numbers like this, one can truly say that the glass ceiling in Corporate America has been shattered,” said Frank Glassner, CEO of San Francisco-based Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants LLC. “I don't remember seeing women ever

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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus is being made into a movie! I kid you not. You can read about it here."Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to turn Gray's book into a film and TV franchise, which will be produced by Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun (no, not the 'Seinfeld' guy) and their BermanBraun production company."Why should I care? Because I've been writing about the fact that since

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Caroline Howard, deputy online editor of ForbesWoman asks an infrequently asked question: Do you know how to use a mentor? Here's my reply.What great questions, Caroline. Especially the "how to use a mentor" question. It's a question not frequently asked.Based on my research the vast majority of advice about mentoring over-focuses on WHY to get a mentor, the advice TO GET a mentor and advice on

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I use this image not only because this blog includes several disconnected thoughts, but also because The Female Brain is an intriguing, important and useful book.What's With the Movies?In the past several weeks I've watched 4 movies - 3 about amazing women (Coco Before Chanel, Catherine the Great, Young Victoria) and one about an amazing man (Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius). I've noticed

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What do you do when you see a speed bump in the road? You slow down, right? If you don't slow down, you're likely to do damage to some unseen part of your car. What you don't do is STOP driving. You see the impediment, but you don't give it power to deter you from your destination. It's especially helpful if you've been on the road before and know to look for it or if the bump is made distinctly

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The Vancouver Sun reports on the concept of "gender fatigue""Women bosses are no longer unusual in the corporate world, where many top-flight companies see gender and diversity programs as a "must-have."Flexible working, parental leave, mentoring and women's networks have become the norm in many businesses.But gender diversity's move into the mainstream gives an impression that gender issues at

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Women More Resilient?A study by Accenture finds that women are more resilient than men - a supposed advantage in turbulent times. The definition of resilience:"the ability to overcome challenges and turn them into opportunities"Based on this definition, 71 percent of more than 500 corporate leaders surveyed in 20 countries believed that resilience was a key capability in determining who to retain

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Attention to women in leadership comes in waves. This week's BusinessWeek article titled the Hard Truth about Soft Skills reports on a Hay Group study of successful women as compared with successful men and less successful women. To summarize"The outstanding women," Fontaine notes, "used a better blend of what we think of as traditional masculine styles—being directive, authoritative, and leading

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In Part 2, I challenge the Economist's title "We Did It!". Here's an analysis of the lead story entitled Female Power. It addresses why there are more women in the workforce, the opportunities and challenges.Why - this is pretty accurate and irrefutable (except for the vacuum cleaner - as far as I can see women spend as much time on housework now as my mother did in the 50s).Feminists who raised

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The venerable Economist recently usurped the "We can do it" message of Rosie the Riveter to imply that women have somehow "done it" because we are reported to be over 50% of the workforce. Oh, please! Contrary to its misleading cover, the "Leaders" page accurately reports:"...women are still under-represented at the top of companies. Only 2% of the bosses of America's largest companies and 5% of

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Because studies indicate that women's careers are often motivated by a drive for meaningful work and because in most companies successful careers are built on leadership skills, I offer an important question for you to consider as you begin the New Year.Let me put the question in context. As I define it in No Ceiling, No Walls, leadership is:using the greatness in you toachieve and sustain

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...is a new front seat!Nat Stoddard, writing for Forbes says that if past is prologue there will be a potential 25 NYSE listed companies whose current CEOs are outsted. There supremely qualified women waiting in the wings who would make excellent potential successors.I hope that as we ring in 2010, some of them will take over the front seat and drive their companies to success in the new

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What women aren't being told about executive presenceFashionistas would have women believe that what we wear, the accessories we use and how we look are keys to executive presence. Why? Because that’s how they sell products - and most of us know by now that women make or influence 85% of all consumer purchases. But in the context of executive presence, this emphasis on personal appearance leads

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The Missing 33%™ is the hidden secret women aren't being told about career success Lipstick, diamonds and Gucci won't advance women in their careers. Nor will useful, but insufficient, advice on work/life balance, resilience or authenticity. Women are given abundant advice on how to look and how to be, but it only gets them so far. There's a not-so-little hidden secret that women aren't being

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The Canadian Board Diversity Council is working to increase women's representation on boards from 13% in 2007 to 20% or more by 2011. Organizations collaborating include corporate, executive search, government. In Canada looking for a search firms making board placements?Korn Ferry (CBDC Member)VellIn the US, ION has a new "take action" page with ideas for how individual shareholders and mutual

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The 2009 statistics from organizations around the country is coming in and it's not a pretty picture. In Massachusetts, The Boston Club reports that of the 100 largest companies:6.8% of executive officers are women (down from 10.9 in 2007)11.3 directors are women down from 11.5 in ’07 (38 companies have no women directors)1.2% director seats are held by women of colorIn California, the worlds 8th

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The Glass Hammer posted a story this week titled, "The end of the road for women's networks?" Here's a summary of the case for the title (and AGAINST women's networks):networks' underlying assumption is that there's something wrong with women and we need to stop "fixing" womenHere's the case FOR women's networks made by others quoted in the article: women's networks play an important role in "

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2009 and where does the US stand on the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap report?"The United States (31) fell by three places, owing to minor drops in the participation of women in the economy and improvements in the scores of previously lower-ranking countries."Ranked above the US are Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand (my personal dream destination) - none surprising. But

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Those who know me know I don't like the metaphor of work/life balance, but I DO like this ForbesWoman article by Sylvia Ann Hewlett about the actions of Joan Amble, an EVP, Corporate Comptroller at American Express.Joan literally gave her staff their lives back:No email after 8:00pmEveryone leaving the office by 6:30No email on weekendsSupport for more efficient meetingsand moreGood for her!And,

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As one of the "shrill, women's lib" generation I often bemoan the glacially slow progress that women are making. To explain it, I speak of the Missing 33%. This has two meanings. When it comes to leadership (as I write in my new book No Ceiling, No Walls) the Missing 33% is 1/3 of the leadership success equation that women don't often hear about and as a result too often max out below the glass

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Finishing my new book No Ceiling, No Walls has kept me too busy to blog (hey, that's an interesting title for something), so there's a ton of news to report.Having a woman heading PR for Cadillac has turned women into social media promoters of the car. Looks like Cadillac has figured out that women are an untapped market. Read more here.One of the aspects of leadership is using your personal

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On the one hand, Newsweek paints powerful, ambitious and successful women as "bitches". It has chosen 11 of the most powerful women who are also noted for not being so very nice. As a matter of fact, they pitch "11 Powerful Women Who Make Men--and Other Women--Squirm."Have they ever described powerful men as those who make women and other men squirm? Not likely!On the other hand Newsweek tells us

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Here's a collection of summer stories of interest all wrapped up with a bow.Does anyone else see the irony that Manpower is named by PINK Magazine as one of the top companies for women? BTW, PINK won't be printed as an in-hand magazine any more. Sad loss.How about this: On Women's Equality Day, a story from the Gainesville Sun reported that of the top 150 public companies in Florida 63 had

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Intending to study processes for identifying and developing high potential employees, DDI stumbled upon a disturbing finding - men and women are increasingly viewed differently as they move up the ladder. (Why am I not surprised?)The report, titled Holding Women Back - Troubling Discoveries and Best Practices for Helping Female Leaders Succeed, included these findings:50% of the participating

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Okay, I admit, I'm giddy times 3.Rachel Alexandra beat the boys in the Preakness,Ursula Burns is taking over from Anne Mulcahy at Xerox (the first woman CEO-to-woman CEO handoff in Fortune 500 history and the first African-American woman to head a F500 company) andPresident Obama has nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.So, I guess the headline should read, "and the fillies are gettin'

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Marsh and McClennan is partnering with Heidrick & Struggles to meet at least 10% of its recruiting needs through women and minority-owned businesses. Here's the what and why from the MMC news release:"MMC is committed to providing our global client base with the innovative solutions and unique perspectives of a diverse workforce, while fostering an inclusive environment that

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When the WSJ launched JournalWomen, I cyber-met its editor, Francesca Donner. We corresponded, I enjoyed and supported the place she created to celebrate women in business.On Wednesday, I received an email from Twitter saying that I was being followed by @ForbesWoman. Lo and behold I discovered that behind @ForbesWoman is none other than Francesca. No wonder I touted the launch in my April 21

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No, it's not I who am ambivalent...its the data (as reported by WSJ).WSJ headline yesterday (alerted through Twitter) was "Study: More Women Named to Boards". Being a huge advocate of more women on boards, I quickly read the report which said,"Are more women moving into corporate boardrooms? Good News: "At least one study says yes. In the first three months of the year, 38% of new directors – 38

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Is it just me or do others think that the overall national climate is shining a brighter light on women's issues and opportunities? Take a look at what was found by an April, 2009 study commissioned by L'Oreal:"A new national survey commissioned by L'Oreal USA confirms an alarming issue plaguing our nation's scientific community - the scarcity of female scientists and lack of awareness of their

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It was a profit, albeit a small one (2%), that Patricia Woertz, CEO reported for Archer Daniels Midland's third quarter. Reported by Tess Stynes @ the WSJIrene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft (pictured above) reported a 10% jump in profit. Details reported by Kerry E. Grace of the WSJ:"...Organic revenue, which excludes divestitures, acquisitions and the impact of foreign-currency fluctuations, rose 2.3%

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I frequently joke that when it comes to the "personal excellence" aspect of leadership that what women need is to develop leadership presence and what men need to develop is ethics. Is this why Wall Street seems to prefer moves made by companies with women CFOs?In an unpublished study from Boston College reports:...the stock market reacts more favorably to both acquisition announcements and

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I love Google Alerts. They keep me up to date on what's happening with women around the country and around the globe. And sometimes what's happening is pretty funny. Just today, the alerts offered this contradictory content.Women are doing great! (As reported here in Training & Development magazine.)"In 1968 the standing of women in the labor force was deteriorating to the point that President

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Wow, finally a company that "gets" the physiological differences between men and women. I have been painfully aware of these differences as a rider - there really should be separate designs for saddles! but I digress.I just learned that Keilhauer has a chair called the Sguig that is designed to ease our aching backs because its ergonomic design is based on the different sitting styles and pelvic

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Today I had a few minutes to revisit JournalWomen and was disappointed to see that it is a mere shadow of its former self.That's why I was pleased to have an alternative. Forbes has rebranded an earlier venture to create its new ForbesWoman site. It has a pretty good blend of the usual content that sells advertising space (e.g. dress for success) and content that helps women succeed. (UPDATE: You

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As I explain in my forthcoming book, there are WAY too many people who casually (and mistakenly) use the word leader as a synonym for executive and/or CEO. This causes many problems, e.g. if you use the words interchangeably, you lump together CEOs who create viable, healthy companies with those who've run their companies into bankruptcy. This could be easily avoided by using a prescriptive

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In Jamaica the U.N. is demonstrating its commitment to advancing women onto boards. 100 women will be trained because a study..."...found that in the last decade, women's participation on boards in Jamaica only moved marginally by two per cent in the private sector and four per cent in the public sector. It also found that while men believe overwhelmingly that women are prepared for senior

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Boards are from Mars, Consumers are from Venus! ION has published its 2009 Report on women in boardrooms and the numbers are appallingly few. The report this year offers a very positive focus on actions to increase the number of women on boards in the face of what could be a wave of turnover due to tenure and age of current directors. Here you can find a link to vote your proxy to influence board

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The statistics are stunning! Watch this slideshow to learn:There is no country in the world where women’s wages are equal to those of men. The value of women’s unpaid housework and community work is estimated at between 10 to 35% of the world’s gross domestic product — amounting to between US $4.7 trillion and $15 trillion in 2005.AND more...Brought to you by the International Development

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I didn't remember that the Equal Pay Act was signed by President Kennedy in 1963. I was reminded while creating a speech for Women's History Month. My...how far we haven't come.In yet another report on unequal pay (thank you Lilly Ledbetter for putting teeth into the Act), The Economist is reporting on a study on the earnings of men and women MBAs. From the National Bureau of Economic Research:"

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Reiterating that companies whose boards have the highest percentage of women directors outperform those with the lowest by huge margins (42% higher Return on Sales, 53% higher Return on Equity, and 66% higher Return on Invested Capital) margins, I have been hypothesizing why that is. I believe it's because outside women directors have a lesser stake in "we've always done it that way" thinking. I

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In my new book I explain why the idea of the "visionary leader" is a particular manifestation of the times in which it arose (late 70s early 80s). At that time, successful executives were responding to the external forces in the marketplace and transforming their organizations. Failing executives were not.Imagine my delight this morning when I read of new research from Insead. Nothing surprising

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UPDATE: Bank of America heiress is lambasting the executives at the top."The granddaughter of the man who founded Bank of America in San Francisco in the early 1900s called the bank's current condition "totally repulsive" and blasted the bank's management for being 'idiots'." WATCH I've mentioned before in this blog my friend, Mark, who after the savings & loan debacle said, "If those in power

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BusinessWeek reports on the increasing numbers of women heading up American business schools. Now up to 17% from 11% in 2002. Way to go!Speaking of BusinessWeek, I'm preparing for a global presentation on women's history month and came across a story about Brownie Wise, the first women to ever make the cover of BusinessWeek. Without her, Tupperware would probably be another failed invention. She

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If this is the kind of thinking widely represented on corporate boards, no wonder our economy is in such trouble. The lack of logic is mind-boggling!The search firm, Heidrick & Struggles and the University of Southern California surveyed directors of publicly traded companies. More than 55% said they would not want to diversify their boards by increasing minority representation. Here's where the

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Our non-verbal communication is very important and as the pundits say, "you never get a second chance to make a first impression." But women in Britain are taking exception to dress for success advice offered by a consultant brought into The Bank of England."Ruth Lea, economic advisor to the Arbuthnot Banking Group and former director of the Centre for Policy Studies, said: “What the Bank of

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"Equal pay is by no means just a women's issue, it's a family issue ... And in this economy, when so many folks are already working harder for less and struggling to get by, the last thing they can afford is losing part of each month's paycheck to simple and plain discrimination."President Barack Obamaon the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.Power to close the wage gap. Holding managers

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