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January 3, 2017: Edition 95
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ORIGINAL CONTENT, FRESH NEWS YOU NEED NOW
For All The Reasons You Gave: Thank You! Take The Lead Co-founder and President Gloria Feldt expresses her gratitude for the ongoing #PowHerfulTogether crowdfunding campaign. TELL ME MORE
Start The New Year Right: Ask For The Raise You Deserve
Explore the possibilities to enhance your value through raises, new title, flextime and more. TELL ME MORE
It's Good For All and
Good For Business Time is now to connect diversity and inclusion to profits, new studies prove. TELL ME MORE
Zolio CEO Aims For More Women Leaders in Investment Management Olive Darragh has spent her career in financial management and shares her tips for success.
Gloria's Pick*:“Power is taken, never given” is akin to my core teaching, and the headline of Jamia Wilson’s important piece on activism. Pair it with the book or the movie, Hidden Figures, and you’ll start 2017 invigorated by evidence that, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice." *Take The Lead co-founder and president Gloria Feldt shares what caught her eye this week. Tweet your tips to @GloriaFeldt.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Laura Bates, founder of Everyday Sexism, exposes examples in the video documentary, #ShoutingBack.
GREAT STUFF TO READ NOW
What Secrets Does Your CV Reveal? See what employers read between the lines of your resume. READ IT AT HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW Read All About It Time to fill your book shelves and stock up your devices with these 2017 leadership books. READ IT AT WASHINGTON POST Who's Afraid of Math? Financial literacy is the key to leadership, so no more saying you're not good with numbers. READ IT AT MOTTO
“When you look at the numbers at the top, C-level jobs, board-level jobs, it’s still very much a white-dominated male group, so we really want to figure out what are the real barriers. And what we’re focused on is a five-point action plan for companies that will help them achieve women’s leadership over time and gives them a roadmap for how to begin to make a difference on the whole aspect of women’s leadership.“
“What We Can Learn From All The Single Ladies" With Bestselling Author Rebecca Traister
Writer at Large, New York Magazine
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