by Gloria Feldt on July 15th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, Use What You've Got
Just two weeks ago, I was greeting the morning as I walked along the sparkling oceanfront in Santa Barbara. I’d spent the day before at the most remarkable Leadership Workshop put on by She Negotiates. Oh it was so beautiful, so restorative. I needed that hour of free flowing bliss before I strapping myself back into the plane for the seven hour trip back to New York. I spent most of the trip back thinking about the workshop.
Though I’d given the keynote and led part of the workshop, I was also there as a learner, wishing I’d had the negotiating skills She Negotiates partners Vickie Pynchon and Lisa Gates taught the group when I was starting out in my career. Do you know that failure to negotiate first salaries aggressively costs women on average $500,000 over our lifetime earnings? And that the more education you have and the higher on the career ladder you are, the more it costs you–as much as $1,000,000!
Well, here’s the good news: there’s a new surge of women determined to help us not just negotiate about money better but also to be a lot smarter about managing what we have. This week’s roundup is a collection of some of the best. Check them out, and learn.
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Tagged as: Belinda Fuchs, financial literacy, financial management, Gloria Feldt, investing, Jacki Zehner, Lisa Gates, Manisha Thakor, Marcia Brixey, money, She Negotiates, Vickie Pynchon, wealth, women and finance
by Gloria Feldt on July 12th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Define Your Own Terms, Embrace Controversy, Employ Every Medium, Equal pay, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, Workplace
That question comes up every time I speak with women about their career aspirations.
A second question just as surely follows: if we can’t be authentically who we are, why would we want to “succeed” in male-dominated organizations or professions? Many women who leave the corporate world to stay home with children or enter entrepreneurial or nonprofit fields—or alternately, remain quietly in their jobs put only to find themselves doing the work but not getting the promotions—say they do so because they don’t want to become like men.
Yet all signs point to a potential breakthrough moment for women even as we debate the pros and cons of taking on male camouflage.
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Tagged as: Anne Doyle, Arianna Huffington, career aspirations, Christine Lagarde, Ellen Gustafson, Equal Pay, Gloria Feldt, Jil Abramson, Julie Gilbert, leadership lessons, male camouflage, media, mentorship, power-to, sexism, sponsor, sponsorship, Tina Brown, Victoria Pynchon, women and culture, women in leadership
by Gloria Feldt on July 8th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Employ Every Medium, No Excuses, Power Tools
This is a roundup of roundups. We are oversaturated with information from a multiplicity of sources and communications platforms. I don’t know about you but I am turning increasingly to trusted sources of aggregated news and opinion.
In the spirit of No Excuses Power Tool #8, Employ Every Medium, I’m curious about something. What news aggregations you check first thing in the morning?
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by Gloria Feldt on July 6th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Inspiration, Leadership, Politics, She's Doing It
“You have to meet Mallika—she’s amazing!” my friend Lynn Harris enthused. She was so right. There are few people with visions big enough to encompass human rights on a global scale and then create breakthrough ways to advance them. Mallika Dutt did just that, and she tells her story in this week’s “She’s Doing It.” President and CEO of Breakthrough, the global human rights organization she started is based in New York and India and uses the power of arts, media, and pop culture to advance dignity, equality, and justice. Read on and be sure to watch the powerful video’s they’ve produced to deliver the message.
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Tagged as: Bell Bajao, dignity, domestic violence, dowries, Elenaor Roosevelt, equality, Gloria Feldt, human rights, India, Mann ke Manjeere, media, philanthropy, popular culture, power-to, social justice, women in the arts
by Gloria Feldt on July 1st, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Gender, Leadership, No Excuses
It’s not your mom’s Title IX any more.
Even I, who used every excuse to avoid the miserable girls’ gym classes in my pre-Title IX high school days, and rarely read the sports page now, couldn’t avoid noticing this past week how in the world of sports & gender equity, women athletes are visibly ramping up the action and reaping the results of almost four decades of access to competitive sports and many thanks go to crusader Bernice Sandler.
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Tagged as: Bernice Sandler, Billie Jean King, Didrikson Zahariass, equal access, gender equity, No Excuses, NPR, President Obama, Seattle Storm, Title IX, Wimbeldon, WNBA, women athletes, Women's Sports Foundation, Women's World Cup
by techsupport on June 28th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Equal pay, Leadership
A few years into my first CEO job, I was given a great piece of advice by a man I met at a leadership workshop. “Ask for it by name,” he said. It’s a lesson I’m still trying to learn …
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by Gloria Feldt on June 28th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Equal pay, Inspiration
You gotta watch it, and you won’t be able to resist getting out of your chair and joining the dance. I ran across this enticing video of Australian women doing an Equal Pay Dance while preparing my remarks for the She Negotiates Leadership Retreat coming up this Thursday. You bet, we’re going to do it there, though perhaps not in such lovely costumes 🙂 And a one, and a two…
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by Gloria Feldt on June 24th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Embrace Controversy, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, Politics, Power Tools
After my keynote at the AAUW national convention last Sunday, I overheard an attendee tell her friend about the graphic I’d used of a hot dog with “No More” written in mustard on it. I didn’t have to say a word when I put the graphic on the screen for the entire audience to start laughing at the shared awareness that I was referencing now-former NY Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Stupid). And that by implication I was referencing the fatigue and disgust so many people feel about the seemingly unending waves of philandering politicians who thus far have been almost entirely male.
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by Gloria Feldt on June 19th, 2011
in Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses
by Gloria Feldt on June 17th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Create a Movement, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, Personal Relationships, Politics, Power Tools
While the flurry of puns and bad jokes are still ringing in our ears, it has finally happened that another high-ranking, supposedly tech-savvy Congressman resigned in a press conference that hearkened back to the days of Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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