By ReneeCK, Friday, September 03, 2010, 1 comments
I don’t know if you saw the Emmys, TV’s biggest night of awards. I don’t know if you care. I cared quite a bit because HBO’s movie, Temple Grandin walked away with a boatload of awards. Temple Grandin is a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She invented a humane method for leading cattle to slaughter. And she’s a woman living with autism. She’s kind of a rock star in the autism world because she can give us insight as to how the autistic mind inte
By skirtySteph, Friday, September 03, 2010, 0 comments
Revered for her raw in-your-face style, Margaret Cho is a prolific and critically acclaimed stand-up comedian. Her credits also include VH1’s The Cho Show, and recurring roles on Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva and The Ghost Whisperer for CBS. This performance contains adult language and content, and is recommended for adult audiences only.
I am getting my stuff together right now to spend the day in Atlanta. Why am I going into the city? Well, shameless plug for me, I’m going to be on Radio Sandy Springs as a guest on Monday. (August 30) If you miss it, the replay is supposed to be available Tuesday for a couple of months.
By skirtySteph, Thursday, August 26, 2010, 0 comments
It’s hard not to revisit Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid.
An exhaustive debate clamored over whether she should project her femininity or try to neutralize it.
“One of the telling moments was when she teared up in New Hampshire and flipped that election overnight,” said Skip Webb, whose political consulting firm has advised hundreds of campaigns across 38 states.
“Had she been the person she is as Secretary of State she might have been the nominee for president,” he said.
By skirtySteph, Thursday, August 26, 2010, 1 comments
Comedians and pundits sometimes muse about how different things would be if women ruled the world, but there is evidence of what the things would really be like.
Beyond jokes about outlawing raised toilet seats or instituting "makeup lanes" on highways, the best evidence of women's leadership is to look at where they already have power.
By skirtySteph, Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 0 comments
My grandmother was five years old when the 19th Amendment was ratified. Growing up on a small Ohio farm, she might have seemed flung far from the epicenter of the suffrage movement. She was a headstrong, bookish kid who had already taught herself to read by studying road signs.
There are many articulate, well-connected and intelligent women out there that keep making the same mistakes over and over again. In the workplace these are the ladies that are consistently overlooked for new jobs, promotions, or pay increases that they deserve. They are falling into a pattern of making one or more of the following behavioral mistakes in the office that eventually prevents them from getting ahead. What are you doing that is preventing you from reaching your full potential at work? Check this list and see if you are making any of these mistakes:
