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Strategies for Personal and Professional Resilience

Martha Johnson could write the book on personal resilience and she has. It’s called On My Watch: Leadership, Innovation, and Personal Resilience. It includes more than her personal story of how she bounced back after the onslaught of the Congressional Hearings in April, 2012. It’s about how a creative leader carries out innovative strategies and […]

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Webinar Teaches How to Get More Power In Your Career and Life

Join dynamic leader Gloria Feldt for a webinar that will change your relationship with power forever. Her new organization Take The Lead Women has a mission to help prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors of our society by 2025.

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How To Reenter the Workforce After Staying Home With Kids

Are you struggling with getting back to work after taking time off? Women usually take time off because they are staying home to care for their kids or aging parents, but the challenges are the same regardless of the reason for the absence.   A recent article  by J.C. Conklin posted on w2wlink.com offers some great

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Would the World Be More Peaceful if Women Were in Charge?

Do you think the world would have less violence if more women were in charge? A new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined ,  by Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker, says it would.  “Traditional war is a man’s game: tribal women never band together to raid neighboring villages,” he writes in

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How to Become a Leader in Your Office

Who knew training as an actor might be handy in pursuit of a leadership role? Guided by your emotional intelligence, you must convey the essentials of leadership in order for people to follow you. In a recent article, Dr. Relly Nadler, clinical psychologist and  founder of True North Leadership, Inc., explains the finer points of

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Companies with Female CEOs = Girl Power

Sure, progress is slow. But we’ve got to remember to celebrate our accomplishments and encourage each other. Companies with female CEOs outperform in the stock market! Yes, you’ve heard that before, but we’ve got to hold this up in the light. I’ll say it again: Companies with women CEOs outperform in the stock market! Kim

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Will Your Teen Earn $145,000 per year?

If your teenaged daughter or granddaughter is average, she expects to earn $145,000 a year, according to the Denver Post. Do you think that’s likely? Unless she’s on a fast track for science, technology, math or engineering, it’s not likely to happen.Financial guru Sharon Lechter has some solutions for teens and parents alike. Who Needs

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Do Fewer Training Opportunities Block Women’s Tech Careers?

What gender barriers have you encountered at work? I heard from an associate on Linked In that she did not have gender issues in getting hired to her tech job and has found great women mentors in her field who have provided great mentor-ship. Her college adviser was also a wonderful mentor and is now

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