Memo to Executives: Women Don’t Want It All
There are a million voices in the debate on women in the workplace. And I was reticent to add another. But there’s a perspective no one is talking about and that’s the work. Until the work changes, the ratio of women in leadership positions won’t change. My latest post in Forbes addresses just that. What if women don’t want it all? What if it’s not about promoting us but rather whether we even want it? This is an important conversation. ...
#DearCongress Lessons
Twitter is exploding with the hashtag #DearCongress, partly fueled by @WashingtonPost, by Obama’s speech on Monday and his suggestion to contact Congress and by general American outrage. I rarely talk about politics publicly (I think it’s a personal topic), but this isn’t about the politics. We hired our leaders to do a job and they’re not performing. So what can we learn for our own jobs?