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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. One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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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. Encouraging our peers every step of the way.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance.

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

Women on Business

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. I volunteered to be the “lucky&# laid off executive and have never looked back. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! Synchronicity is such a blessing!

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

Strategy Driven

Practical and well-tested, Front Runners : Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-Changing Strategies For Total Business Transformation shares author Mahesh Rao’s 10 strategic steps successfully implemented by numerous executives of Fortune 100 companies during the last decade. In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award.

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Let’s Be Honest About Lying

Harvard Business Review

There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. In a darker vein, there are the tobacco industry executives, testifying under oath in front of Congress that they had no idea cigarettes had adverse health effects. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself'

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Leaders as Teachers: Two Things You Absolutely, Positively Must Do.

Terry Starbucker

You are demonstrating that yes, I have a work ethic , yes, I have a passion for this work , and yes, you need to follow my lead on how I tackle this work. The teaching element of leadership is so often overlooked and overshadowed by more glamorous things like vision, strategy and execution.