The latest women's leadership news, research and advice packaged to fit your life. May 23, 2017: Edition 114
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ORIGINAL CONTENT & FRESH NEWS YOU NEED NOW
I Need A Hero: What Wonder Woman Can Teach Us About Leadership
This summer's female superheroes are offering lessons about defending your power to do what you intend plus tips on saving the world, even if it is just your career. TELL ME MORE
Pitch
Perfect: Getting to Yes With The Right Ask No matter what you are trying to accomplish, you need to have the right proposal that will give you the green light. TELL ME MORE Back To School? Deciding If You Need Another Degree It's pomp and circumstance time again, so how can you choose if you need or want more training or perhaps a career shift with a new degree in a different concentration? TELL ME MORE
Gloria's Pick: Great quote by the artist Chuck Close: “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and do the work.” This girls’ soccer team showed up, listened to the coach, did the work, and won in the boy’s
league.I think they’re pretty inspiring too! #beunlimited #SisterCourage Tweet your responses to @GloriaFeldt
TAKING THE LEAD. YOUR ACTION OF THE WEEK
Take the 20/20 Challenge to increase the percentage of women on U.S. company boards to 20 percent by 2020. See what you can do to get involved here.
Here's A Montage You Want to Share Flip through these photos of women at work around the world for some visual inspiration. READ IT AT BUSINESS INSIDER
Perserverance and Passion in Healthcare
Women of color in healthcare leadership roles can use these strategies to accelerate the rise to the top. READ IT AT FIERCE HEALTHCARE
Go Ask Alice The next iteration of Siri is Alice from Circular Board; she is artificial intelligence designed specifically for women entrepreneurs. READ IT AT
FORBES
How Do I Look In This CEO Slot? A new study shows that single women play down their ambition to be seen as more attractive to men. Really? READ IT AT GLOBAL
NEWS
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Feel all the things. Feel the hard things. The inexplicable things, the things that make you disavow humanity’s capacity for redemption. Feel all the maddening paradoxes. Feel overwhelmed, crazy. Feel uncertain. Feel angry. Feel afraid. Feel powerless. Feel frozen. And then FOCUS."
--Courtney Martin and Wendy MacNaughton
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