What Does It Mean to “Speak Your Truth to Power”?
Speaking truth to power is an important professional development skill, but it’s also an important life skill. It’s the best way to live in total integrity – at home and at work – every day of your...
View ArticleMen Are Rewarded More Often for Speaking their Truth? Really?
Follow The Woman Effect online - www.TheWomanEffect.com. I ran a survey last month asking people about their experiences with Speaking Truth to Power. One hundred and fifty five professionals – mostly...
View Article3 Skills To Vault You Into Leadership (And Help You Stay There)
Meg* and I were lunch-brainstorming how to help one of her direct reports who is struggling to “fit” into her recent Director-level promotion. Meg noted that this woman – we’ll call her Kathy* – found...
View ArticleWork-Life Baloney
Follow The Woman Effect online - www.TheWomanEffect.com. A constant discussion topic among every professional woman I know – and no small number of men – used to be work-life balance. We judged...
View ArticleDon’t Get Angry, Negotiate!
Many business leaders are good at contracting and negotiating. Negotiating is how we close customers, manage vendors and hire/release employees; it’s how we establish and maintain our relationships...
View ArticleInnovation Challenge: Humans Reject Creativity
Breaking news for creative types: you’re not crazy. Your innovative ideas really are being ignored, downplayed, sidelined and squashed. So says a study out of University of Pennsylvania Wharton,...
View ArticleThe Perils of “Easy” Consensus: Leaders, Do Your Job
Throughout my career I’ve had experiences with government, nonprofit and corporate cultures, and I’ve noticed a leadership pattern in all three that any leader can learn from. Consensus means different...
View ArticleBreaking the Pattern of Management
Gary Hamel is awesome. I remember doing strategic planning in the 90’s and reading Hamel’s guru stuff. Here he is 20 years later still blowing our minds and giving us new change management insights to...
View ArticleEntrepreneurial Grass IS Greener (and Innovative!)
A while back I read a blog post by a soon-to-be-entrepreneur who sounded so excited about his new adventure that I didn’t have the heart to write this post in response until after he’d launched....
View ArticleThe Shortest Distance To Higher Profits
“The shortest distance between two points is under construction.” Leo Aikman Getting from A to B always seems so simple until you encounter the devil in the details. We learn in B school that profits...
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