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 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
On HBR Blog Network, Whitney Johnson writes: Independent Work May be Inevitable http://blogs.hbr.org/johnson/2013/02/independent-work-may-be-inevit.html Absolutely. Independent work is inevitable (and a huge blessing) for some of the most talented people in our...
by Jackie Acho | Feb 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Marvin Bower, from McKinsey.com http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/Knowledge_Network/Our_People_and_Values/Our_Culture.aspx World-class professional development is key to the second part of the framework suggested in this blog (1. vision, 2. can I grow here?, 3. being...
by Jackie Acho | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Our children not only begged for a dog, they prepared over 2 years. They researched breeds, asked us to vote on options, helped organize the house, and searched petfinder endlessly to find our perfect pet. They deserved that dog. Yet, I stalled. A dog is work, and no...
by Jackie Acho | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Adding to the debate on why we have fewer women leaders than we might expect, President Debora Spar of Barnard College offers helpful advice about not trying to be perfect everywhere and helping each other...
