Category Archives: Management
A Culture of Perspective
A few years ago in a board of directors meeting, the president of my company was in the middle of a presentation when her cell phone rang; she looked at the display and saw that her son was calling. Concerned … Continue reading
Filed under Management, Work
Grad School At What Cost?
Recently I’ve been considering going to graduate school. Going through the application process, I’ve been struck by how impossible graduate education must seem to many qualified people, especially if you are a parent. Putting aside the logistics of actually studying … Continue reading
Filed under Happiness, Management, News, School
Work 2.0
I recently read a 2008 article in Edutopia by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, that presents an exciting “Education 2.0″ vision of using technology to create lessons … Continue reading
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Using Our Purchasing Power To Get Real Power
There is a wonderfully optimistic article in this week’s Newsweek about demographic and workforce shifts that are leading women to have significantly greater purchasing power than men. This is good news for many reasons, but two big ones are that … Continue reading
Filed under Management, News, Politics, Work
Should Flex-Time Always Be An Option?
This week an article in the Indianapolis Star reported that Eli Lilly will limit its flexible work program, asking most employees to go back to traditional business hours. The announcement comes on the heels of a 13% overall reduction in … Continue reading
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Helping Women Take Risks
Over the past few months Deborah Spar, president of Barnard College and former professor at Harvard Business School, has been promoting the idea that if there had been more women on Wall Street, the financial crisis could have been averted. … Continue reading
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Judgement of the Moms
On the heels of Louise Chunn’s piece about her life as a working mother comes two more personal essays in a similar vein, one from Katie Allison Granju in Babble, and a second mother-daughter editorial from Anne and Lesley Shooter … Continue reading
Filed under Childcare, Happiness, Management, News, Politics
Hurting the Collective by Opting Out
Last week I had dinner with a friend who pointed out that working women have lost the collective sense we had during the golden years of feminism; these days women who opt out do so at the expense of the … Continue reading
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Why We Should Stop Asking if Women Make Better Managers
Earlier this week The New York Times asked “Do Women Make Better Managers?” The piece suggests that women mange more effectively than men by virtue of being women. There has been a spate of these articles lately (see Daily News, … Continue reading
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