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Would You Rather be Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

Harvard Business Review

Suppose you were alive in 1884 and were approached by an aspiring entrepreneur who had developed the most efficient and durable horse carriage ever created. Even after the first automobile was developed by Benz, mass adoption took decades. Would you invest in this company?

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Women Leadership Voices

Coaching Tip

Dara Richardson-Heron, M.D., Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. . Chief executive of the Y.W.C.A. Sharon Napier, Chief executive, Partners + Napier, an ad agency: "I love to see someone at a lower or a midlevel position walk into a meeting and know what their role is and have a point of view. Related articles.

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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

Find out more by emailing info@theessentialfeminine.com   Maureen Simon   Co-Contributor  www.maureensimon.com [link] [link] www.theessentialfeminine.com Join our Facebook Group "Women Influencing Now"   twitter@maureensimon   December 18, 2009 in Current Affairs , Womens Development , Womens Leadership | Permalink (..)

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