Every women may know the feeling over being overlooked or run over in a meeting. No one likes it. Especially executive women.
Harvard Business Review surveyed more than 7,000 people, including female executives at or above the Vice President level. The consistent feedback was the women feel less acknowledged during meetings. While men agreed with this opinion, the disagreed with why women didn’t feel powerful. Continue reading
Earlier this year, I wrote an article titled A Diet that Could Save Your Life. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the Western world, and high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes, as well as other serious health problems. I described the DASH diet, which advocates limiting salt intake to lower blood pressure. Continue reading
I have been speaking at conferences and conducting workshops for many years. I have presented throughout the world and consider myself fortunate that I have generally had wonderful experiences engaging with attendees, organizers, sponsors, etc. However, as you will see in this article, one can run across a ‘bad apple’ and it may not initially present itself as a ‘bad apple’. My hope is to enlighten you a bit as you seek to find that speaking spot, sponsorship and attend a conference. Continue reading
Management is not a one-sided coinage, it has an upside and a downside, and all is perceived and judged on the level of the conscious mind. It is about maximising gain while minimising loss in all its forms significant to stakeholders. It is at the basis of commercial activity and inseparably dances together like conjoined associates born out of management exercising choice. Continue reading
Part 1 of this two-part article offered an analysis of the origins of the longstanding worker-owner contract and weighed the opinions of thought leaders as to where the human endeavor of work may go.
To get a better sense of the shifting sands inherent in this issue, it helps to consider an acronym that the U.S. Army coined more than 30 years ago: VUCA, which stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Strategic instructors at the U.S. Army War College began using the term to describe the unpredictable New World Order emerging at that time from the ashes of the Cold War. Continue reading