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

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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. New competitors have joined the online auction marketplace and a poor business decision related to eBay’s acquisition of Skype created some bumps in the road of eBay’s success.

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

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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!