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

Women on Business

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% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

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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

This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul.

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

Strategy Driven

Front Runners – Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-Changing Strategies For Total Business Transformation by Mahesh Rao. Discover how industry leaders get ahead and stay there and apply the same skills and strategies to your business and personal lives. In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award.

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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.

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The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should.

Terry Starbucker

These days I’m the one trying to banish the nattering nabobs from my circle (probably using a little different language to do it), and it’s an extremely effective strategy for living a life full of dreams, hope, and possibilities – and action. So what do you think – shall we rid the world of “can’t” altogether? Imagine that.