Executive Female articles from January 1992

Executive Female archives from January 1992

Go-getter, peacemaker, entertainer, researcher ... the perfect staff or a recipe for disaster?
January 1, 1992... Experienced managers know that managing people comes down to managing personalities. When staff members complement one another, not only in skills and talents but also in attitude and disposition, they become more than the sum of their parts....

Promotion blues? You betcha.
January 1, 1992... Great news! You've been promoted-and a long-awaited step up the ladder it was too. Time to celebrate? It should be, but surprisingly, you feel depressed and anxious. Don't panic; promotion depression is quite natural and it needn't derail you...

How good is your business idea - really? (includes related articles)
January 1, 1992... Most entrepreneurs start their companies with more hope than capital, more energy than savvy and more gut instinct about their market than hard facts. While cash can save the undercapitalized-and time and experience can educate the...

Learning centers get good grades.
January 1, 1992... CONCERNED ABOUT declining test scores and underfunded public schools, parents increasingly are sending their kids to learning centers for after-school instruction, where certified teachers teach basic skills and enrichment courses to...

How to rev up a company when the economy is down. (includes related article)
January 1, 1992... JANETTE FLING HAS A FIVE-YEAR PLAN tO bring the furniture company she bought at a liquidation sale back to life. So far, her start-small strategy is working BY JOAN DELANEY Breathing life into a company that has gone belly up is...

The 7 stages of making a change. (Career Passages)
January 1, 1992... SOME CAREER CHANGES START as vague dissatisfaction and are followed by months or even years of exhaustive soul-searching. Others are slapped on your desk on Friday afternoon along with a severance check. Change can be invigorating and...

How to manage your job search. (includes related articles) (Career Passages)
January 1, 1992... IT DOESN'T TAKE AN MBA TO KNOW which of these two approaches to a job search is best: You, as mendicant, go from person to person, from place to place asking for a job. You become, quite literally, someone begging others to come to your...

The jobs that lead to better jobs.
January 1, 1992... BY targeting the tight kind of jobs during her 16 years at Electronic Data Systems, Alice Lusk became President of its largest division. Here's how NOT ALL MANAGEMENT JOBS are created equal. Line jobs are the tough positions n sales,...

Create a pocket of excellence. (business ideas)
January 1, 1992... Are your great new ideas mired in a corporate swamp of politicking and indecision? Here's how to recover your managerial momentum WHY DOES IT SEEM THAT the more there is to do, the tougher it is to get started? Let's say you are working...

The mindset of black success.
January 1, 1992... Black baby boomers now run divisions of Fortune 500 companies and make deals on Wall Street. Their victories reveal important lessons about just how much America has changed-and the Psychology of success REGARDLESS OF WHICH SIDE people...

What you told the world: NAFE's sexual harassment poll reaches 24 million.
January 1, 1992... As SOON AS the news broke that Anita Hill was accusing Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, NAFE decided to poll its members to find out how many of you had experienced harassment in the workplace and whether you felt...

Lessons from the Thomas-Hill hearings.
January 1, 1992... IN OCTOBER 8, half-a-million letters were delivered to members of Congress urging them to increase appropriations for breast-cancer research. Included were well over 3,000 letters from NAFE members who responded to our appeal to participate...

Five goals for the new year.
January 1, 1992... IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR again when "do more networking" is number one on every woman's career resolution list. January is a good time to start fresh. It's the time to examine your changing work examine your changing work world and to rebuild...

The right job - interview chemistry.
January 1, 1992... The stakes are high in a job interview. You know the position can be won or lost depending on the message you communicate. The trick is not to be so concerned about your own performance that you fail to pick up crucial cues from your...

I'm the new boss: what's the best way to take charge?
January 1, 1992... AS THE NEW TOP BANANA, so much is expected of you at once. To begin, you'll be met with a mountain of tasks: You must resolve your predecessor's leftover bungles, rally your employees, establish your personal and Sear up to make a big splash...

When couples squabble over money.
January 1, 1992... AS WHEEDLERS GO, Ralph Cramden is a pretty good one. But try as he might to get his wife, Alice, to fund one of his many business ideas, he can rarely convince her to loosen the purse strings. Before she hands over any money from the couple's...

Rituals of leisure.
January 1, 1992... SATURDAY NIGHT out, a leisurely drive, brunch, family visits, the Sunday paper-we take comfort in these weekend rituals. It's the time when we take a break from making a living to enjoy our lives. But all too often, the hectic pace of the...

Class dismissed. (classism in the women movement)
January 1, 1992... SUNDAY NIGHT OF the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the third and final act, featured the women who supported judge Thomas. To describe Professor Hill, the women used every available cliche: aggressive, ambitious, demanding, aloof,...