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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1%

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EBay CEO Meg Whitman to Retire :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, no one knew how successful the company would become. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! Synchronicity is such a blessing!

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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. Talent Camp was designed as a three-day off-campus activity for high-potential university candidates to our management trainee program who might be confused about how and where to start their careers and what they could look for in the business life.

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My Free E-Book: Leadership From a Glass Half-Full

Terry Starbucker

Thanks for your insight and taking those bumps in your career and sharing them so that hopefully others can avoid those bumps and experience others to learn even more. Jeanne Male September 24, 2010 at 12:22 pm Spot on, creative, compelling read. That was a pleasure to read. Keep up the great work!

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How I Graduated from the Billy Joel School of Life And Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Meantime I launched a singing career. Maria Palma February 19, 2010 at 1:43 am Terry, What a creative way to tell your story! King Jack eventually took the decision out of my hands – my release was surreal, like Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, with sotto voce voices over wine and white tablecloths. “Now

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

Here is Denise’s post from her perspective as one who has led change from within organizations like Sony during her corporate career and from the outside as a consulting partner, a role she has played for the past 6 years. We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts.

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