Women on Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

What makes a good leader — IQ or emotional intelligence? That’s the question asked by Limaro Ferro Vaz of Headrush, and it’s not a new one. People have been debating IQ versus emotional intelligence in leadership for years. As Limaro shares, “It was Daniel Goleman who first brought the term ‘emotional intelligence’ to a wide audience with his 1995 book of that name, and it was he who first applied the concept to business with his 1998 Harvard Business Review article. R

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE; Research from the Zenger/Folkman, a leadership development consultancy, reveals that women are rated as better overall leaders by their peers, bosses, direct reports, and other associates than their male counterparts. In fact, the research found that the higher the level in the organization, the higher the gap in ratings grows.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Do you live in one of the worst-paying states for women? In 2011, the median weekly earnings for full-time working women was $684, compared to $832 for men (see Gender Wage Gap by the Numbers for details). We also know that the gender wage gap starts immediately after college graduation , and in September 2012, Catalyst put together an interactive tool that enables anyone to learn how big the gender wage gap is in any state (see How Big Is the Gender Wage Gap in Your State?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

While other people were out giving the economy a boost on Black Friday, I was hiding behind my Kindle, avoiding my holiday to-do list—something that never seemed daunting when I was a stay-at-home mom, even with five kids. It wasn’t until I went back to work, years later, that I fully comprehended the rigor of pulling off Christmas while working a fulltime job.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

According to research from Catalyst, women get fewer of the high visibility, mission-critical roles and international experiences (i.e., “hot jobs”) that are necessary to get ahead at global companies. The Catalyst report , Good Intentions, Imperfect Execution? Women Get Fewer of the Hot Jobs Needed to Advance , suggests that this unequal access to those “hot jobs” may be an underlying cause of the senior-level gender gap in business.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Every employee of a large corporation has had to take some type of personality test. If you’ve taken a Myers-Briggs test and found your an ENFJ, an ISTP, or any of the other letter combinations that represent your personality, then you know what I’m talking about. These tests usually occur during some type of training class. The excited trainer leads the class through a series of exercises to demonstrate how different personality types think and act, so everyone can work together mo

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Guest Post By Dunya Carter (Learn more about Dunya at the end of this post). In today’s increasingly cynical climate, it’s easy to think that enterprise-wide team-building exercises are useless. And with good reason: many companies have made the mistake in confusing team-building with team competing. Competition can unfortunately, bring out the worst in people.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Do you feel stuck in your career? Have you lost the passion that once motivated you? If so, you’re not alone. Louise Mandar of Starting an Online Business explains that feeling stuck is common. Over time, we tend to forget why we want to achieve specific goals that we’ve set for ourselves. She offers several tips to get unstuck and find your business passion again: Get a piece of paper and jot down all the reasons why you started in the first place.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Admit it: as much as you value social media, professionally and personally, every so often you get a twinge of angst while sifting through your peers’ posts—the latest client conquest, dinner with an industry celeb, a headline-making accolade… You know what I’m talking about: The posts that you publicly “like,” but privately loathe, and that send you spiraling into a heightened state of insecurity, muttering things like, “I’ll never have a high-profile client,” “What am I doing wrong?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Americans work some of the longest hours and get some of the fewest vacation days in the world, but a new infographic shows that a lack of worker productivity still exists in the United States. The annual payroll loss from employees spending time on tasks that are not work-related is $134 billion. 39% of employees spend less than one hour per week on non-work tasks while 3% spend over ten hours per week doing things that are not work-related during work hours.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The 2012 list of the top 10 women in biotech from FierceBiotech has been released and it features some amazing women who were identified through a nomination system by respected industry leaders as well as online nominations. You can find out who made the 2012 list as well as some great insights from these inspirational women below: Carrie Cox, CEO of Humacyte. “My approach has been to not really think about [being a woman in biopharma].

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: According to research from the U.K.’s Association of Accounting Technicians, women who are “forced by time or financial constraints” to leave their careers after giving birth earn 60% less now than they did before they went on maternity leave. That translates into a pay cut of up to £20,000. In fact, the average working mother earns £9,419 less per year in comparison to her pre-maternity leave income, and nearly 1 in 4 women (25%) have had to

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATES: According to a study by the Council of Canadian Academies, Strengthening Canada’s Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension , there is a significant gender gap in university research careers in Canada, which means women are excluded from both recognition and equal pay. James Bradshaw of The Globe and Mail explains: “Two decades after women began to outnumber men on university campuses, those gains in the student population haven’t translated into many v

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Last night I learned the best business information that I have heard in quite a while from Oliff & Berridge, PLC wait for it-Intellectual Property Rights. In building our empires we are so caught up in success and growth that we don’t think about risk. After you have spent years building your brand recognition and customer base, how easy is it for someone to come along and tell you that your brand is not your own and you must immediately stop using it?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Just 1 in 7 board members at Europe’s top companies is a woman, and the battle for gender balance on corporate boards continues. In a new video, the European Commission asks, “Do we want to wait another 40 years to reach a fair gender balance?” You can press the play button in the video player below to watch the video, which is very clever.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Penning a blog post about gratitude on Thanksgiving Eve is far from original, however it’s a topic that most of us can benefit from exploring each and every day. Especially in relation to that so-called Daily Grind, a part of our life oft void of gratitude for anything other than a paycheck. Or, a Facebook “like.”. Whether you’re running your own business or coughing up 8-plus hours a day for someone else’s, your work effort—and ethic—is met with the same enthusiasm as, well, chopped liver.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

ADVERTORIAL: If you’ve ever been overseas on business then you know that traveling without your phone is not an option. A few hours out of the office and you’ve got a pile of email to read, missed calls ,and important decisions put on hold. If you have a BlackBerry or a smartphone of some sort then you’ve got everything you need when you’re away but at what cost?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: It’s been nearly 20 years since the first American woman, Sally Ride, went to space (check out a great women in space timeline ), and times have changed a lot since then. Today, women are increasingly moving up and taking top positions in aerospace companies. Lockheed Martin Corp. recently named Marilyn A. Hewson as its first female chief executive, and Phoebe Novakovic took over as chief executive at General Dynamics a few months ago.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: According to Teri List-Stoll, Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Procter & Gamble, the secret to her success can be summed up in one sentence, “Laugh, believe, trust yourself, and take chances.” It’s that positive attitude that makes her a role model for so many business women. Carmen Harbour of Little Pink Book interviewed Teri recently to learn more about how she defines success, how she finds balance, her goals, and her legacy.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Gender inequality at executive levels and on corporate boards of directors is a global problem. To date, nine countries have created some kind of quota requirements for corporate board diversity and another 20 have added some type of requirement for companies to address corporate board diversity in their annual reports. Despite these efforts to boost board diversity, women and other minorities are still grossly underrepresented.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATES: Career coaching has been growing in popularity in recent years and more people are opening their own businesses as career coaches all the time. How do you know if career coaches are actually worth the time and money you have to invest to work with them? Katherine Reynolds Lewis of CNN Money tries to answer that question. She writes: “As the industry has grown, so have concerns that some coaches don’t have the credentials or experience needed to truly help t

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Have you ever been handed a failing project and been asked to turn it around? That’s the question Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders asked recently. She reminds us that you need to slow down and assess the situation so you can be sure you make the right changes. But what do you change? To help you successfully tackle a turnaround, Karin offers a list of do’s and don’ts.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: How do you deal with situations in business that appear to be completely outside of your control? That’s the question Sue Stockdale of Prowess 2.0 asked in a recent article, and her tips are exceptional. She writes: Focus on reality – what is actually going on? Focus on a wider perspective – how else could I view this?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The crux of the situation as many business owners know is consumer spending. As we plan and strategize growth, many of us wonder if our businesses will be around this time next year. Even firms such as my own that concentrate on business services are feeling the crunch that has become the personality trait of this economic climate. If there is a strain on the middle class, many of my customers won’t have customers.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

There are millions of small businesses throughout the United States. Small businesses have some unique challenges because they have the same duties to fulfill as their larger counterparts but without the massive budget or staffing to get it done. Whereas a large company can hire specialist in every area, a small business often requires one person to where multiple hats.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Being on every social media platform doesn’t make the woman, or her business – her interactions do. There are literally hundreds of social media platforms out there. If you type in ‘social media platforms list’ you will see that there are tons. You think I’m kidding? Go ahead, I’ll wait. Being successful at social media is not measured by how many platforms you have a username on, its measured by the interactions you are having and relationships you are crea

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: According to The Wall Street Journal , just 15.6% of corporate board seats at Fortune 1000 companies are held by women (up 1% from the prior year). What’s most disheartening about this statistic is that research shows again and again that diversity creates stronger teams and higher outcomes. Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal explains: “Even the smallest step – adding a single woman director– correlates with positive results.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Last month, I wrote about a crazy but real study published by CNN that linked ovulation cycles with women’s choices at the voting booths. In a hilarious response to that article, Slate’s Alyssa Rosenberg shares how the women of Slate voted on this Election Day. Alyssa explains, “Slate has already published its guide to how all of us planned to vote heading into Election Day, but when we arrived at the polls, many of us got our periods, or found ourselv

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Today, Women on Business has launched our Women on Business Network News page where we feature the most recent content from all of the amazing blogs in our Businesswomen Bloggers Directory. Now, you can find the latest and greatest news, insights, information, and reports from business women thought leaders around the world in a single place. When you visit the Women on Business Network News page, you’ll see that the content is laid out with the most recent updates first.

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