3 posts tagged “women in the news”
Just sharing an interesting article about women and competition. In my varied career, I have faced so much of this "unhealthy competition" from rivals and even co-workers that I finally opted to work from home, alone, for some peace.
Do women compete in unhealthy ways at work?
By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY
As founder and president of a fitness training enterprise, Beth Shaw used to deal with management issues at her fitness training and education company, which is largely composed of women.
But Shaw says she soon got weary of dealing with all the competition between her female staff.
"Women complain that they're not getting what they need, but are nice to each other's face. Everything is behind the back, (and) nothing is on the up and up," says Shaw, whose company, YogaFit, is based in Redondo Beach, Calif. "Women really need to be trained to be assertive and outspoken so it's not passive-aggressive." [READ MORE...]
Always worth promoting a book about an inspiring woman (and one written by a woman as well)...
KATHARINE GRAHAM: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon
With a foreword by Jim Collins, author of Good to Great
"A GREAT BOOK ABOUT A GREAT PERSON" Warren Buffett
In this absorbing book, Robin Gerber reveals the leadership style that was the heart of Washington Post publisher's success.
Drawing upon exclusive interviews with her friends and colleagues, Gerber analyzes the principles that guided Graham’s toughest decisions. When Katharine Graham took over as publisher and CEO of The Washington Post in 1963, she was burdened with a provincial paper, the painful aftermath of a failed marriage, and private jeering from male executives who believed that she wasn’t up to the job.
But in the twenty years following, she remade the Post into one of the world’s largest and most successful media corporations. She defied the government by publishing the Pentagon Papers and exposed White House corruption through a dogged investigation of the Watergate scandal. As CEO, she took The Washington Post Company from $84 million in revenue in 1963 to $1.4 billion when she stepped down in 1991.
Also by Robin Gerber: LEADERSHIP THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WAY: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage (Penguin/Portfolio, 2002)
“Without a doubt, Eleanor Roosevelt was one the greatest leaders in American history. Robin Gerber clearly demonstrates why in this superb, lucid, and compelling study. It is a joy to read.” Donald T. Phillips, author, Lincoln on Leadership.
Link: Davenetics* Politics Media Musings.
I should be working on my book about blogging, but instead I'm obsessively reading blogs (research, yeah, that's it) and have been beaten to the punch by Davenetics regarding blogging about Forbes Most Powerful Women list.
But I'm living in Alaska now, so there's some kind of time delay up here with current news.
The Top 10 Most Powerful Women...
1 Rice, Condoleezza
U.S. Secretary of state
2 Wu Yi
China Vice Premier, minister of health
3 Tymoshenko, Yulia
Ukraine, Prime minister
4 Arroyo, Gloria
Philippines, President
5 Whitman, Margaret
U.S., Chief executive, eBay
6 Mulcahy, Anne
U.S., Chief executive officer, Xerox
7 Krawcheck, Sallie
U.S., Chief financial officer, Citigroup
8 Barnes, Brenda
U.S., Chief executive officer, Sara Lee
9 Winfrey, Oprah
U.S., Chairman, Harpo
10 Gates, Melinda
U.S., Co-founder, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
With all of these U.S. women in the Top 10, I ask you this: When are we going to have a woman as president in this country, dammit? Yes, that's what I want to know.
