by Jackie Acho | Mar 11, 2013 | Teaching Empathy
CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, showed this video, titled “Empathy,” to the Cleveland Clinic staff during his 2013 State of the Clinic address on Feb. 27, 2013. Dr. Jim Merlino, Chief Experience Officer at the Clinic recently shared it with me. It’s only 4...
by Jackie Acho | Mar 8, 2013 | Parenting
“The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.” – Martin Luther King Jr. *** I had the pleasure of attending the YWCA Resilient Leaders conference yesterday in...
by Jackie Acho | Mar 4, 2013 | Leadership, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
People are taking issue with Sheryl Sandberg’s privileged position as she encourages women to Lean In . That’s not what bothers me though, and in some ways is a red herring…a means to divide women, yet again (rich vs poor as we’ve long done...
by Jackie Acho | Mar 4, 2013 | Women in Leadership
Is the Queen Bee our feminine ideal of leadership? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323884304578328271526080496.html?mod=googlenews_wsj No, what Peggy Drexler described in the “Tyranny of the Queen Bee” in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal...
by Jackie Acho | Feb 27, 2013 | Work Family Balance
With all of the conflicting advice about how to “have it all” (or not) out there now, we wanted to offer some practical advice about how it is possible to achieve a balance of work and family from the start. Early childhood (0-5) is a vital and intense...