Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart™ Your day-to-day job is not the same as your career. Your job is but a subset, and your career is made up of each successive job, as well as your accomplishments, publications, keynotes, branding and networks. Therefore, doing well, even spectacularly well, in your current role, is helpful to […]
By Kate McClaskey (New York City) Being family friendly means more than just offering services to new parents. It means taking investment steps towards providing financial incentives for new parents to return to work – and stay there. According to the May 2004 Current Population Survey, 27.5 percent of wage and salary workers had flexible […]
Thursday evening The Glass Hammer hosted Women in IT: Staying Technical and Getting to the Top. Held at Goldman Sachs‘ West Street headquarters, the panel featured Dr. Caroline Simard, Vice President of Research and Executive Programs at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology; Wendy Stops, Global Managing Director of Quality and Client Satisfaction, […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Vivian Tsoi, Partner at global law firm White & Case, sees opportunity just about everywhere, a trait which, no doubt, plays into her success working in mergers and acquisitions at the firm. Working out of White & Case’s Beijing office, Tsoi says she is amazed at the attitude […]
Contributed by Beth Collinge of CTG – a division of ILX Group plc. The IMF has raised its forecast for global growth this year. Details of the EU’s stress test plan were released Wednesday and European lawmakers gave their backing to an overhaul of Europe’s system for supervising financial institutions and markets. Ernst & Young […]
Contributed by Lerzan Aksoy, Ph.D. What are your relationship strengths and weaknesses? The answer is not what you think; in fact, it comes down to exploring how one interacts with one’s co-workers. That is what I and my co-authors, Timothy Keiningham and Luke Williams of Ipsos Loyalty, discovered when we embarked on our study about […]
By Elizabeth Harrin (London) If I don’t have my BlackBerry I don’t feel properly dressed. Given that technology has such a big role to play in our business and personal lives, you would have thought that the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a crucial lynchpin in any organisation. For the most part, CIO’s are seen […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Yvonne Schneider is a panelist at today’s Women in IT event, hosted by The Glass Hammer. “I consider myself a global leader,” said Yvonne Schneider, SVP Global Commercial Services Technologies at American Express. “I align employees across five regions around the world and we’re a high performing team. […]
Contributed by Lynn Harris, Author of Unwritten Rules: What Women Need To Know About Leading In Today’s Organizations. One definition of insanity is to do the same thing again and again and expect a different result. If we want more women in senior leadership positions we need to take a different approach. The current one […]
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) According to a new study released by AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, twice as many women than men said their top financial worry was not being able to save enough for retirement. This is for good reason, too. Though many were hit hard by the recent financial crisis, women in […]