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Take the Government Leadership Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Then in December of 2010, I received an email that changed my perspective, and my life. Kristin Russell (CIO of the State of Colorado and a former Oracle Vice President) turned down the highest paying IT job in the area to apply her talents at the State. You might be thinking. I would never work in government. Regrets? " No regrets!".

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Women: The New Voices of Unions

Women on Business

When in 2004 a law was passed in California that required hospitals to have 1 nurse for every 5 patients, the governor delayed the implementation of the law. He staged several unions and six million workers to strike from AFL-CIO in 2005. In 2010, Mary Kay was elected as the president and vows to “heal” her union. in Seattle.

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