One week ago, Forbes.com released its annual World’s 100 Most Powerful Women List. Forbes discusses the ranking method on the report’s front page:
Forbes’ Power Women list isn’t about celebrity or popularity; it’s about influence. Queen Rania of Jordan (No. 76), for instance, is perhaps the most listened-to woman in the Middle East; her Twitter [...]
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The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women!
Posted in Leadership, Politics, Women in Business, tagged business, forbes, Politics, ranking, women, women in leadership on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Potpourri Friday
Posted in Aside from Business, Branding & Marketing, Business Ethics, Leadership, Politics, Principled Leadership, Women in Business, work-Life Balance on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been able to catch up on my blogs today, and wanted to put together some interesting, if topically disparate, posts that I came across:
Web 2.0 applications are coming, going, and denting companies’ reputations. See “Losing Face,” about how British Airways and Virgin Atlantic were dinged by their employee’s posts on Facebook, and then [...]
BailoutSleuth – Keeping an Eye on the Wall Street Bailout
Posted in Business Ethics, Politics on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BailoutSleuth is a new journalistic blog that’s keeping track of the shady dealings behind the Wall Street bailout package, by investigating how the money is doled out and who is compensated by the deal. It’s pretty disturbing how this supposedly transparent process is already being circumvented, as portions of publicly-released documents are being blacked out [...]
Newsweek’s “Women & Leadership”
Posted in Leadership, Politics, Women in Business on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s edition of Newsweek has a special section titled “Women & Leadership” which features 11 interviews with women in leadership positions. The list is pretty varied and includes Tyra Banks, Barbara Walters, and Dara Torres. They have also made available footage featuring Sarah Palin speaking at a form on women in leadership that Newsweek [...]
Featured Item of the Week: Newsweek on Women Voters
Posted in Featured Item of the Week, Leadership, Politics on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The cover story from the latest edition of Newsweek, “From Seneca Falls to . . . Sarah Palin?”, is an interesting and insightful piece on whether or not women voters will be swayed by McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his VP candidate. Since there’s been so much talk about it recently, especially on the [...]
