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Twittering their productivity away
October 09, 2008
As more and more social networking, blogs, twitters and other ways to "connect" are pushed onto the market, it's harder than ever to keep team members focused. How can you ensure your priorities stay their priorities?
Sarah Palin: National Embarrassment
November 06, 2008
Today it was revealed by Fox News that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent, but instead thought it was a country, and that she didn't know the countries in NAFTA. If this story is true, I am outraged that such material facts about this VP nominee's qualifications for the job were hidden from the public. So blind to party loyalty were these aides that they allowed this eminently unqualified person get close to the highest office in the world. For these aides to have put party loyalty so wholly over the safety of America feels almost - dare I say it - treasonous. See this video in which reporters were complicit by keeping this information "off the record" until after the campaign.
Girl jocks make the best CEOs
September 08, 2008
I’ve found that women who play team sports have better skills to compete in a male dominated business world. Whereas men have learned to have a knock-down, drag-out battle and walk away friends, women are supposed to value the relationship as much as the outcome and are taught not to rock the social boat. Sports helps women learn they can compete and still be friends. Here are some tips to improve your competitive response.
Women entrepreneurs are "it"
August 06, 2008
Although women are starting businesses at twice the rate of the national average, the reality is that companies with women CEOs only attracted a paltry 2.9% of available venture funding last year, according to VentureOne, a subsidiary of Dow Jones, down from 4.52% in 2006. In fact, this percentage has dropped nearly every year from a high-point of 7.55% in 2002. To get behind why women-owned businesses have received so little venture funding, we talked to Sharon Vosmek, CEO of Astia (www.astia.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting women-led companies with access to equity funding, achieving and maintaining high growth, and leadership mentoring. To be fundable, a business must show a significant growth opportunity – and here’s where Vosmek says women literally fall short, as they tend to be much more conservative on their estimates of market opportunity than their male counterparts. Learn why.
