I don't usually write about politics... but I'm fascinated by the NewsPoll opinion results that confirm women are still not warming to Tony Abbott. More than that, their satisfaction with him as opposition leader is in decline, and 42% of women prefer the idea of Julia Gillard as Prime Minister rather than Mr Rabbit (as the PM refers to him).... Read More
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Would you like to see Tony Abbott as PM? Why do majority of women polled say "no thanks"?
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Davos ponders quotas to increase female participation, while fewer than one in five participants this year were women
Thursday, February 02, 2012
I received this article from Carol Schwartz of the Women’s Leadership Institute of Australia… So it turns out only 17% of Davos participants this year were women, despite a new quota system demanding that the largest members send one woman for every four men. Read More
The changing face of leadership - an infographic on leadership styles
Thursday, January 19, 2012
According to this nifty infographic from Careerbuilder.com, 63% of senior management wear business casual to work, 51% of women in senior leadership roles wear black to work (compared to 18% of men) and senior leaders are more like to drive SUVs to work than any other vehicle... and 57% of women senior leaders bring their lunch from home compared with 36% of men. Agree or disagree? Any surprises? Read More
What if your leadership and actions could change the world? What would you do? Where would you start?
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Kudos to Karen Beattie and her team at The Growth Faculty for the Global Leadership Forum staged yesterday in Sydney. I’m still thinking about all the amazing stories I heard from the stellar line up; and asking how can I apply their lessons and thinking to my own career? Read More
Are you a leader? Who is your role model? And what is your plan?
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Last week I spent the better part of two days with Christine Nixon at a course called Women Achieving and Flourishing put on by Our Community in Melbourne. If you get the chance to attend one of these programs in the future (register at OurCommunity if you’d like to be informed), I can highly recommend it. Read More
Have you booked yet to get up close and personal with George Clooney... oh, and Martha Stweart, Muhammad Yunus and more
Friday, November 11, 2011
If you haven't already booked yet to see George Clooney and all his mates in Sydney on 12th December, time and spaces are running out! New pricing and seats have just been released so you can now book via The Growth Faculty: Read More
Calling for nominations for the AIM Young Manager of the Year - let's make sure it's a woman who wins!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The Australian Institute of Management is calling for nominations in its Young Manager of the Year award... do you know someone who may fit the bill? Read More
How will you make the world a better place?
Thursday, September 08, 2011
I really would love to make a difference to the world. Specifically I do want to see women equally represented in leadership roles, in our workplaces and communities. I'm not sure why I'm so obsessed with this, and sometimes I wish I weren't because I made a lot more money when I just had a regular day job! But I believe if I keep chipping away it just might make a difference. Sometimes though I sit in an audience and hear someone tell their story, or read a biography, or watched a TED clip and think "wow! compared to them, what difference can I make..." I'm not someone famous, nothing spectacularly amazing or - conversely - awful has happened in my life and perhaps never will. So what difference could someone as ordinary as me make to the world? Read More
West Bank Women make political statement in their swimming costumes
Friday, August 05, 2011
I came across this story by Ethan Bronner which I think is just a great way to cap out the week... a group of women who defied the laws of Israel with their own peaceful protest involving (of all things!) a swim in the ocean! Read More
Four things women get wrong when they become a boss...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Suzy Welch - co-author of Winning
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and more intelligent, considered and enlightened argument - even if we don't agree with it! That might explain why women prefer MT and get grossly tired of Mr Abbott's false "I'm just a normal Aussie bloke" whiny cheap personal attacks. There's nothing remotely
clever about that!
is a nasty put-down to women who choose, or who have the luxury of being able, to stay at home to raise their children. I wish. He has 3 strong, intelligent and independent daughters. Role models for young women everywhere. Why do people create a fantasy,
and then criticise him for their own fantasies? He has strong morals which are sorely lacking in our public life. At least you know where he stands. He's not in government, he's in opposition; it's not his job to guide the government. There's more media attention
on the opposition than on the government - the ABC particularly is obsesses with Tony Abbott. I'd love to hear from a psychologist about this.
His underhanded comments about women, the disabled and anyone not seen as 'productive' to his cause should alert you to the real views he possesses. I dont bother listening to his scripted crap. You know hes a great actor. The candid stuff says a lot about
what he's really about. I'm a strong believer in separating religion and state, he however is not. We are too multi cultural to ever have a leader who cant separate these aspects and those who suffer at the hands of the church will suffer at the hands of the
government if thats the case... Yes, the government has made mistakes but better the devil you know...
church, which is still the case. Last night the media made a great fuss about Kevin Rudd being in church for the commencement of the parliamentary year. Does that bother Kasey? If Abbott is a womaniser, which I doubt, then that puts him in the grand tradition
of former Labor party prime ministers, eg, Bob Hawke. Keating might have been if his preferences didn't lie elsewhere. At least we know Gough Whitlam didn't womanise but there again he was in love with himself. It's a pity that children aren't taught in school
about our system of government, and the 1000 years of bloody wars that brought it about, and how free we are compared to the rest of the world. It's a pity, also, that more people don't step back to more objectively consider issues related to the government.
Seems like celebrity worship is alive and growing; the ability to analyse policy, justice and our comparative national advantages is shrinking. All those migrants are coming for a reason and it's not because we are oppressed.