women’s leadership
Flip the Pattern of Erasing Women, Give Women Credit for their Work Every Chance You Get

“The only way you learn how to flip things is to just flip them.” – Julia Child Why does it matter when you use someone else’s work without giving them credit? Especially a woman’s work? Until recently, I didn’t hear much about this problem for whatever reason. Then all of a sudden I felt like […]
The Different Life Trajectories of Women-Led Startups

The problem when you leave a gender equity lens out of entrepreneurship or business development isn’t that men don’t create good businesses; to echo Buffett, it’s that you create the conditions for essentially wasting half the world’s talent. You stop businesses from being the best they can be, you stop ideas that happen to come from women before they get off the ground.
Women Would Be Crazy to Lead (Lead Anyway)

There’s the cult of productivity ethic that tells you to do more, always more, for who knows what reason, often to your detriment. And then there’s going out and doing what you really want to do as a human being on this planet, day to day and in the long-term. These are different things.
Be Careful the Stories You Tell Yourself About Power

When you think of power in terms of “power to” (versus “power over” people and ideas, or “power within” existing institutions and systems), the world suddenly opens up. The world does not suddenly become more fair or equitable, but one’s felt sense of personal power transforms.
Lean Startup Conference Organizers Solve Gender Balance Problem

While so many organizations and business conferences struggle to achieve or are unwilling to look at gender balance and/or racial diversity, some folks are keeping it simple and getting it right. In San Francisco today, hundreds of folks will gather for day 2 of the wildly popular Lean Startup conference, based on the 2011 book by the same […]