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Women Leadership Voices

Coaching Tip

Dara Richardson-Heron, M.D., Chief executive of the Y.W.C.A. USA: "There are so few women in leadership, and the burden on women who are leaders is so high, because you’re expected to be everything to everybody, and to pave the way and bring more women in, and root out all the bad stuff.".

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Would You Rather be Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

Harvard Business Review

The precursor to today's steam engine — the Greek aeolipile invented in the 1st century by Heron of Alexendria — went nowhere because no evolutionary innovator picked up on it to take it to the next level. Even after the first automobile was developed by Benz, mass adoption took decades.

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On Your Leadership Journey, What Memories Do You Toss and Which Do.

Terry Starbucker

My biggest heartbreak involved the Great Blue Heron who perched atop the duck box in the pond just outside our kitchen window. Along the way he or she scared the bejesus out of a Great Blue Heron – one I hadn’t noticed before, that was sitting on the dock in the lake. I wrote a poem asking how I could say goodbye.

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Transform Your 2010

Women in the LEAD

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? GRATITUDE: Journey to Ones Calling WOMEN: CLAIMING YOUR WINGS WOMEN: Challenged and Overwhelmed?

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