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Leadership

Feminine Leadership Part 2

Women in Leadership

What is Femininity?

Thanks to the media, the word “femininity” conjures up the image of a woman who faints on cue, lace gloves, bashful looks, high heels and well controlled laughs. True femininity is inner strength. Michelle McKinney-Hammond has the best definition of femininity:

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Feminine Leadership Part 1

Women in Leadership

Why Feminine Leadership? 10 years ago I developed a workshop entitled “The 7 Irrefutable Laws of Feminine Leadership” (yes, the title was influenced from John Maxwell’s book “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”).  I came up with this workshop after reading this book because there were certain things he never discussed that I encountered simply because [...]

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Do you have a Servant’s Heart or a Slave’s Mentality?

Servant Leadership

In Corporate America servant leadership has become popular form of leadership. I believe it’s only true leadership form. I see people struggle with the term servant, especially those of us in the black community. Servant and slave are terms that don’t sit well with us. Although we will sit in church on Sundays and hear [...]

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da Vinci – Greatest Individual Contributor of All Time

Leadership

Last Friday’s post discussed the difference between Individual Contributor and Leader. I wanted to re-iterate that there is nothing wrong with being an individual contributor by writing a post about an individual who has greatly influenced how I live my life: Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci was the most productive human being who ever [...]

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Individual Contributor or Leader?

Leadership

Often a great individual contributor deceives herself into believing they are a wonderful leader. An individual contributor is someone who is great at doing tasks, or doing a particular . We have all heard disgruntled co-workers say “nobody can do the job better than I,” or “I should have gotten the promotion, they can’t even [...]

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Insecurity Gone Wild!

Leadership

When I was a recent graduate from my master’s program and new as an engineer, I was the only woman on the team. I was insecure and my pride was in my engineering degree.  But my manager repeatedly gave me writing assignments on top of the process work.  The assignments consisted of bids, inter-office memos [...]

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