This morning Tom Peters posted an ALL CAPS temper tantrum. I agree with him whole-heartedly as he argues that the truly hard stuff, the real differentiator of leaders and companies, is the ability to execute strategy:THE...
Fortune 500 companies with the highest representation of women board directors attained significantly higher financial performance, on average, than those with the lowest representation of women board directors, according to non-profit Catalyst’s most recent...
Sunday's New York Times business section has a lengthy article on Wall Street's attempt to retain women professionals and woo back others that have left. It echoes many of the themes in Sylvia Anne Hewlett's March 2005 HBR article and features...
Are you innovative? Do you approach problems from a different perspective than the way we've always done it? Are your solutions to complex problems clever and imaginative? Obviously, finance executives should not be too innovative when if comes to accounting...
The cover story of this month's CFO magazine is What Women Want, and exploration of life-work balance, opportunities, and flexibility. The article balances quotes from leading women in finance with data from a survey of 363 finance professionals (men and...
The following "member spotlight" featuring yours truly was published in a recent edition of the Association of Women MBAs newsletter:AWM Member SpotlightErin McCune: The Unexpected Entrepreneur Erin McCune (USC Marshall School of Business, 2003) never...
A new non-profit, The Flexibility Alliance, promotes workplace flexibility. It provides resources for employers as well as working parents. Key flexibility stats: 60% (nearly) of women in one study would have left their jobs without the opportunity to work...
A March 29th article in FORTUNE Small Business magazine challenges the myth of women-owned businesses as small and local. Although the article cites examples of women who choose to keep their businesses small, it also refers to research from the Center for...
Statistics released today from the Census Bureau show that the number of women-owned businesses grew 20 percent between 1997 and 2002, twice the national average for all businesses. By 2002 -- the most recent data available from the Census Bureau -- women owned 6.5...
Any reader of this blog knows that I am a strong supporter of providing options for professional women who want to have it all - a rewarding career AND a satisfying family life. Forte Financial actively recruits talented mid-career women, offering a flexible career...
