Information on a Need-to-Know Basis
When you have made the final decision to sell your company, most business owners feel that sharing information with employees right away is a good and honest idea. But that is exactly the opposite of what you should do in this situation. While it’s noble that you want to be totally upfront with your...
Author: Julie Gordon White
You’re Ready to Sell … Now What?
Now that you are ready to spin off a business unit as a business leader or to leave or transition out of your own business, how do you do it? It is a question that many executives and women business owners ask – but often when it is too late. Whether you are ready to move on to retirement or a new b...
Author: Julie Gordon White
Cashing Out! Preparing Your Business for Sale
Savvy women business owners know that to run a successful company you need to be a great marketer, able to control costs and deliver unbelievable customer service. However, when it comes time to sell your business, it’s important to plan a strategy that will leave you and your company in a great pos...
Author: Julie Gordon White
Positive Leadership in Uncertain Times
International best-selling author and speaker Jon Gordon shares his passion for developing positive leaders, teams and organizations in today's uncertain business environment. Gordon’s positive spirit and simple transformative message empowers people to live and work with more vision, optimism, joy ...
Author: Site Contributor
Networking Your Way to the Boardroom
Originally written by Liz O’Donnell for www.theglasshammer.com.
“More and more, I understand the differences between men and women in business today. Women are truly not making their skills known and therefore are not making themselves available for work positions.”
Tough love for women from Nancy...
Author: Site Contributor
Ladies Who Launch BYOB (Be Your Own Boss) Event
Ladies Who Launch, THE source for entrepreneurial-minded women who want to live their dreams and love their lives. Ladies Who Launch is the first company to define entrepreneurship as a lifestyle choice and connect women online and in person to foster creativity, community, and support. Join Ladies...
Author: Site Contributor
Blood Sugar Facts for Professional Women
When did diet soda become a healthy food? I think it was sometime in between the commercials of skinny women drinking the pink cans from the 70s and the fabulous super-models slurping down a silver can in the middle of tumbleweeds in the dry west. So, a little diet soda in the middle of a cubicle ca...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
Unique Talents, Unique Needs?
As an African American woman executive writing this article, I struggled with how to articulate the unique obstacles faced by women of color in the workplace and appropriately stressing the diversity of backgrounds represented by this same group. However, two themes came to mind immediately that I ...
Author: Site Contributor
High Blood Pressure In Your Every Day
Blood pressure fluctuates ordinarily for short periods each day. But if it stays up it's a major risk for heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease. High blood pressure is all the more insidious because it's a silent killer; it produces no overt symptoms, at least when it is in the initial moderate ...
Author: Ronald Hoffman
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Women of Vision Announces Mentor of Year
(Saturday, October 27, 2007)
Women of Visionary Influence honored outstanding mentors at its recent annual Mentor Recognition Awards Luncheon.
Frances Pelley of the Texoma Council of Governments was named Mentor of the Year. Co...
Author: Site Contributor
Strategic Planning: Find More Opportunity
A well established best practice in business planning is the SWOT analysis. It stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and is a relatively quick and fairly informative way to assess your business in the marketplace.
Each industry will have its own unique factors, yet the gene...
Author: Jean Lewis
The Four Magic Numbers for Professional Women's Heart Health
Professional women are busy. We have lists upon lists upon lists. I have a Palm Pilot, cross referenced with my Blackberry and detailed in my Filofax (yes, very old school) for just about every task that needs to be done. Each meeting has an alarm synchronized to my watch, each deadline is highlight...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
Network of Executive Women: National Conference
Join the Network of Executive Women as they convene March 16-17 in Dallas at the W Hotel with keynote speakers, roundtable discussions, workshops and networking on diversity and inclusion in business. Go to the Network of Executive Women website for more information on the organization and conferenc...
Author: Site Contributor
Great Ideas for Nailing that Speech
Sweaty palms, shortness of breath, blurred vision. No, you aren't having a heart attack.
You're giving a speech.
For most people, speaking in public is a living nightmare--though it's a skill we all need, whether to woo investors, sell a product or even toast a best friend at her wedding.
To ease...
Author: Lisa LaMotta
Professional Women's Guide To Office Essentials
At long last, Democrats and Republicans agree on something: Nancy Pelosi is the best-dressed woman in Washington. Her stylish suits, paired perfectly with jewelry, are sophisticated and polished – and show the world she means business. Pelosi knows that what we wear speaks volumes about how seriousl...
Author: Carly Young
C-Link Suite Interview With Nina McLemore
Designer Nina McLemore Trail-blazes New Fashion Distribution Channel Especially for Professional Women
Nina McLemore grew into an internationally acclaimed, trail-blazing fashion success from humble roots. She first learned design with her mother growing up in Mississippi making all their own clot...
Author: Jean Lewis
Bridging the Gap
Creating balance between work and home is not black and white. The boundaries are often blurry. The word balance is defined by Dictionary.com as: “a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.” Equal Distribution? When trying to balance your life it is nor realistic...
Author: Angela Ploetz
How Emotional Is Too Emotional?
Emotion isn't a bad thing in the workplace. But you do need to know when showing feeling is OK -- and when you need to rein it in.
Recently, I participated in a panel discussion about how women can help themselves, and each other, advance in the workplace. The panel was sponsored by a major insuran...
Author: Nan Mooney
How to Stop Over-thinking Your Life and Start Living It
I had only enough money to last two more weeks. And the lease on the tiny furnished apartment I had rented for a month was about to expire. So, basically, I had one week to find an apartment and a job. I was 23 years old, jobless, and about to be homeless in New York City.
And as odd as it sounds, ...
Author: Gail Blanke