Despite the strides taken by law firms to increase the number of women lawyers in leadership positions, only a dismal 18.8 percent become partners in the nation’s biggest firms.
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How do you develop clarity on your leadership vision? Lawyer and certified coach Bonnie Flatt offers her suggestions.
We bring you a book review for “How Ella Grew an Electric Guitar: A Girl’s First Adventure in Business” written by Orly Sade and Ellen Neuborne. Parents who want to go beyond telling their children that “money doesn’t grow on trees” will find that this fun story told from the eyes of someone their age will actually do more than educate.
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Women and men alike often generalize about skills associated with specific genders but to what degree do these compliments hold women back from real positions of power?
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Referring to yourself as a “thought leader” requires a certain level of confidence, and there seems to be a common perception that women lack this quality.
Now that I’m the owner of my own business, I try to never subject my poor employees to the monstrosities of weekend cabin retreats and biking marathons. I refuse to become the wicked witch, evilly forcing my employees to pretend to bond for my merriment. I do believe that team-building exercises can be useful; they just have to be well planned out.
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She’s been described as Mark Zuckerberg’s most valuable friend, the key cog in the vast machinery of Facebook that makes everything else work. The one person without whom Facebook would have never gotten this close to an IPO, a woman who helped propel Mark Zuckerberg’s social experiment into a juggernaut.
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For the unabashedly ambitious, uncertain economic conditions provide the perfect time to kick-start your career advancement if you possess the appropriate skills and attributes.