Welcome the The Glass Hammer’s “Spotlight on Asia” week! We will be highlighting successful women working in Asia all week long! By Beth Senko In last year’s Spotlight on Asia, we wrote about the sizeable gender gap in the Asian workforce and some of the hurdles that women face in narrowing that gap. Today as […]
Welcome the The Glass Hammer’s “Spotlight on Asia” week! We will be highlighting successful women working in Asia all week long! “Be open in your career,” advised Pamela Yeo, General Counsel and Senior Vice President, AIG Property Casualty Asia Pacific. “When you realize that everyone around you can teach you something new, and you become […]
Happy Summer Friday from The Glass Hammer Team! You can catch up on this week’s content here: Voice of Experience: Connie Maccarone, Senior Vice President of Insurance Operations, Western & Southern Financial Group Offices without Borders: The Nine Ways to Overcome Team Language Barriers Play to Your Advantage: A Finance Background Will Help You Attain […]
By Cathie Ericson Offices without borders: The Nine Ways to Overcome Team Language Barriers Today’s professionals are accustomed to working with multi-national teams in our pervasively global workspace. While most quickly learn to navigate logistical issues, which might include teams’ diverse geographic locations and time zones, there is an element to global teams that is […]
Guest Contribution By Deborrah Himsel Are women leaders being pushed and pulled toward an organizational glass cliff, toward jobs that no man in his right mind would take but women grab out of naiveté or desperation? Former University Of Exeter researchers, Michele Ryan and Alex Haslam, coined this term to explain their findings that organizations […]
By Kayla Turo We have long discussed the advantages of incorporating more women into board level executive positions, which includes professed benefits such as increased productivity, independence, and creativity, as well as a decline in the debilitating habits of “groupthink” and stereotyping found among ill-diversified boards. The recent report “Women in finance: A springboard to […]
The opportunity to learn and grow through different positions is what Connie Maccarone liked best about Western & Southern Financial Group. The company, as she recalls, “offered career opportunities, industry-recognized training and long-term growth for me that other jobs did not.” She started in an entry-level programming position, dedicated 29 years to Information Technology, and […]
Happy Summer Friday from The Glass Hammer Team! You can catch up on this week’s content here: Voice of Experience: Dixie Johnson, Partner, King & Spalding Four Steps to Understanding Your Own & Others Motivations Four Ways to Balance Motherhood with a Career in the C-Suite Choosing Leaders for the Wrong Reasons Want to get […]
By Nicholas Pummer One of the most important decisions that any organization makes is who to name manager. However, according to a recent report by Gallup, companies are alarmingly bad at identifying managerial talent. According to the results published in the Gallup Business Journal, companies select the wrong candidate a staggering 82% of the time. […]
Guest Contribution By Neela Seenandan The debate on working mothers is usually framed in “you can’t have it all” terms and often pits working mothers against their stay-at-home counterparts. Typically, the discussion focuses on middle-class mothers in mid-level jobs. But what about balancing motherhood and work in the C-suite? Are the issues appreciably different for […]