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Posts Tagged ‘gender and leadership’

Better CSR Comes from More Relational Traits

In Part 2 of my SustainableBusinessForum piece, More Women, Better CSR, I point out that what women bring to the corporate leadership “table” is practice and comfort using their relational traits.  I see huge potential in recognizing that and developing strategies for nurturing – in everyone – the types … Read on >

More Women, Better CSR?

If yours is a business striving to become more sustainable, one of the systems worth review is the strength and resiliency of your human capital.  That more women at executive and Board levels will help make an organization more adaptable through challenging times should be common sense.  This is perhaps … Read on >

Studying Up on Women and Sustainable Business

I’m excited to share that I have just launched a regular column on women and sustainable business for the SustainableBusinessForum.  The introductory piece is simply a call to study up on women.  I don’t suggest this solely because women are likely to be a crucial consumer market for your … Read on >

A “World Forum” Without Women?

Given the topic of economics from the global perspective, how is it possible that a thought leader gathering could have so few female participants?  That’s exactly what Morice Mendoza, editor of Women-omics discusses in his BusinessWeek article on the 2009 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.  In it, … Read on >

Military Action or Household Management?

I loved Hillary Johnson’s article, The Next Management Revolution, in the July issue of Inc. It reminded me of the women’s leadership classic, The Female Advantage by Sally Helgesen (Currency Doubleday, 1990). In Sally’s book, women’s ways of management are described as webs of inclusion and … Read on >