Welcome to The Glass Hammer’s Celebration of Asian Heritage Month! All month long we will be profiling successful women here in the US who have Asian heritage as well as spotlighting some amazing women in Asia and discussing what it means to work there. “I have been very lucky in my sixteen-year career to have […]
Nneka Orji Are you no longer motivated by the work you were once very passionate about? Are you experiencing shortness of breath? Has managing your work-life balance become an impossible task? According to psychologist Sherrie Bourg Carter, if you answered yes to the above questions, you are likely to be on the road to burnout […]
By Michelle Hendelman A report released last year by the AAUW asked a very simple and direct question about women in STEM: Why So Few? A question this straightforward should have a clear answer, yet when it comes to women in technology the answers are numerous and complex, and tend to lead to even deeper […]
Lei Chen, Vice President and Head of Enterprise Growth Risk and Information Management for American Express, is very passionate about talent development. This is why she makes it a priority to be actively involved in many of the mentoring, leadership training, and networking programs available to executives at American Express. “One of the things I […]
Guest Contribution by John Keyser The better our relationships, the more effectively and efficiently we can achieve our desired outcomes. The paradox is that the quality of our relationships is best established without a motive – not because this person can help me, but rather because I am genuinely interested in this person, I want […]
By Jarod Cerf In a recently published article, McKinsey & Company director emeritus, Joanna Barsh, noted how her fears of being ignored and judged, and the efforts she made to confront them, have served as the foundation of her work on Centered Leadership with co-author Johanne Lavoie. “Layers down,” she writes, “I (re)find the message […]
Welcome to The Glass Hammer’s Celebration of Asian Heritage Month! All month long we will be profiling successful women here in the US who have Asian heritage as well as spotlighting some amazing women in Asia and discussing what it means to work there. According to Elinor Hoover, Co-Head, Financial Strategy and Solutions Group and […]
By Michelle Hendelman Millennials –the generation famously deemed by the New York Times as the “Go-Nowhere Generation” –are expected to make up 50 percent of the US workforce by 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Aside from a shift in office demographics, what exactly does this influx of Millennials mean for business […]
By Kayla Turo In celebration of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we took a look at how we can increase the number of Asian-American women in top jobs in the Fortune 500 and financial services firms. You probably already know Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, and Andrea Jung (former CEO of Avon), President, CEO and a […]
Welcome to The Glass Hammer’s Celebration of Asian Heritage Month! All month long we will be profiling successful women here in the US who have Asian heritage as well as spotlighting some amazing women in Asia and discussing what it means to work there. “Seek broad experiences,” advised May Tong. “Use these experiences to establish […]