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The Personal Power of Your Voice

Coaching Tip

Source: The Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2013. To own our power is to be who we are. . In this concept, power is not aggressive or domineering, rather it is to be sovereign; supreme excellence or an example of it is at the root of this word. Are you being genuine? Are you being honest? A Tiny Pronoun Says a Lot About You.

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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

From how I was raised through my education and my career at Bell Labs and AT&T, I never felt any gender bias. In June 2013, Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya invited women to crowd-create a book on women innovators by sharing their own stories. I never felt any discrimination or lack of respect from my partners.

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Is Bias Fixable?

Harvard Business Review

But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. Marilyn Monroe changed Ella Fitzgerald''s career. But first you have to believe in your ability to sway history.

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