Listly by Crystal Wells
Women Leadership
The Women Effect
http://www.thewomeneffect.com
What does it mean to be a great leader? How do you take charge and inspire your team with integrity, authority, and enthusiasm? Thousands of books are filled with reflections and advice on leadership. But finding one that's interesting, insightful, practical - and an entertaining read to boot - can be tricky.
Decision making and leadership go hand-in-hand. Here are articles and publications that offer insights in this area.
A great list of women entrepreneurs, those awesome female startup founders who inspire you
Recently, I read about a father, Paul Wallich, who built a camera-mounted drone helicopter to follow his grade-school-aged son to the bus stop. He wants to make sure his son arrives at the bus stop safe and sound. There's no doubt the gizmo provides an awesome show-and-tell contribution.
BusinessNewsDaily What is the most important characteristic of a leader? Some might say it's integrity. Others may say that it's being a good motivator. But psychologist and author Sherrie Campbell believes that self-awareness - the ability to monitor one's own emotions and reactions - is the key factor in leadership success.
Search "Leadership" online, and you'll find a million articles offering advice on how to be a better leader. Eleven simple steps, nine strategies, five leadership tips - we're inundated with so-called education and training about how to lead well.
It's impossible to respect, value and admire great leadership if you can't identify what makes a leader great. Because of this, the identity crisis I have written about that exists in today's workplace is something that women leaders in particular have been facing for much too long.
Posted: Here are seven habits of natural-born leaders. They dare to fail. Successful leadership, like happiness, is one of those things that everyone claims to have the "secret" to. There are more than 27,000 leadership books on Amazon, thousands of seminars on leadership skills held in conference rooms across the country, and countless articles in business magazines and websites pruning leadership lessons from CEOs and corporate movers and shakers.
Every day, I work with people who have huge dreams and goals - of reaching the pinnacle of their respective field, becoming a world-renowned expert, writing a transformational book, sharing their creativity around the globe, changing lives, and more.
Throughout my 10 years as career and leadership coach and trainer, I've been continually intrigued by Tony Robbins' messages, programs and extraordinary business growth. Ranked by Harvard University as one of the "Top 200 Business Gurus" in 2003 and reaching over 4 million people from 100 countries with his life and business mastery books, products and services, Tony overcame a deeply traumatic childhood with an abusive, alcoholic mother to become a powerful agent for change.
At first, I was a bit taken aback. But now I love it. And it's convinced me that, should I ever have daughters, I'd want them to swear like troopers. One adorable little girl shouts "What the f? I'm not some pretty f*** helpless damsel in distress!"
While I spend my professional time now as a career success coach, writer, and leadership trainer, I was a marriage and family therapist in my past, and worked for several years with couples, families, and children. Through that experience, I witnessed a very wide array of both functional and dysfunctional parenting behaviors.
for The Muse Like many other millennials hoping to break into the national security world, I hightailed it to Washington, D.C. the minute I had my master's diploma in hand. Once there, I networked myself into a frenzy as I searched for a job that would satisfy my intellectual hunger.
Artist Aleah Chapin, 28, has caused controversy with her realistic paintings of nude older women. Now, she has a new London show that celebrates the female form at every age. Here, she opens up to Claire Cohen about body image and the perils of social media
In a world where there's a shortage of transformational agency leaders capable of delivering sustainable business success, why are there almost no female CEO and CCO candidates to lead the biggest creative agency networks globally and in North America? Leadership is the key determinant of business success, and there's a chronic shortage of effective leaders in the creative agency space.
The impulse that often draws people toward activism is a profound feeling of "No!" This can manifest as an inability to stay silent about a variety of environmental issues, including pollution of the air we breathe and the water we drink, the loss of wild lands and quiet spaces, and the grave risks of climate change.