Executive Female articles from July 1993

Executive Female archives from July 1993

Encourage failure and you'll spur growth. (employee management)(includes related article)
July 1, 1993... One of your product designers tries a new twist on an old standard product. The idea just isn't in sync with customer needs, and sales plummet. How do you react to your employee's failure? There are a number of possibilities: * You may...

Office manual for Greenhorns. (guidelines for new employees)
July 1, 1993... Nobody ever told you these things, but wouldn't it have been easier if they had? New employees, however well-educated, are usually forced to rely on trial and error in the quest for office expertise. True, there's no substitute for experience,...

Make business travel easier. (travel software) (Evaluation)
July 1, 1993... Mechanical difficulties have delayed your flight for three hours, and you'll touch down in Dallas at 1 AM, not 10 PM. Instead of panicking about how you will get to your hotel at such a late hour without paying a king's ransom to a taxi driver,...

Cutting through the business-plan jungle. (guide to writing business plans)(includes related articles)
July 1, 1993... ANY BUSINESS OWNER who embarks on writing a business plan may soon find herself entangled in the "business-plan jungle." There are so many books, tapes, videos, software programs and seminars on the subject that unsuspecting entrepreneurs have...

The memo every woman keeps in her desk. (sexism in the workplace) (includes related article)
July 1, 1993... SHOULD SHE SEND IT OR NOT? A HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW CASE STUDY, WITH ANSWERS FROM GLORIA STEINEM, PAUL HAWKEN, JOLINE GODFREY AND OTHERS WHAT KIND OF ADVICE WAS I GOING to give Liz Ames, my pal from the good old days when we worked...

About this new approach to power.... (entrepreneur Ella Williams)
July 1, 1993... As a young girl growing up in Tucson, Arizona, in the 1940s, Ella Williams spent hours baking bread and pastries in her mother's kitchen. But Williams also liked to hang out with the boys, and when she wasn't helping her mother cook for her 11...

We've always done it that way. (changing attitudes of stubborn employees)
July 1, 1993... It's a situation familiar to all managers. You make what seems to be a simple request, but instead of getting immediate action, you get one of these responses: "That will never work. We tried it before. Your approach is way off target."...

The executive's fat-free reading diet. (recommended periodical reading)
July 1, 1993... Everybody I know has a guilt shelf--a spot, usually close to the bed, where unread memos, important mail and other documents to be dealt with accumulate, along with yellowing back issues of the New York Times. Despite what we've been...

An introvert's guide to networking. (making business contacts)
July 1, 1993... You know that visibility is crucial to your career, that promotions, choice assignments and great job offers go to those who know how to toot their own horns. Nevertheless, thoughts of small talk, business-card swapping and self-promotion leave...

I've been sexually harassed; how do I get back on track? (women in the workplace)
July 1, 1993... In the past two years, no workplace issue has dominated the news more than sexual harassment. From the Hill-Thomas hearings to the Tailhook scandal to the allegations against Senator Packwood, high-profile cases of sexual harassment have...

How to get a low-interest credit card.
July 1, 1993... WHO wouldn't want to trade her 19 percent interest-rate credit card for plastic that charges only 8 percent--and no annual fee? The trick, obviously, is passing muster with the credit-card issuers (some card issuers offering the lowest interest...

What's your career anchor? (self-evaluation)
July 1, 1993... WE ALL WANT career development and success. But those words can mean very different things to different people. Finding out your own motivation can help you achieve your professional best. Career anchoring, a technique developed by Edgar...

But it was your turn to empty the garbage. (dual-career families and housework)
July 1, 1993... When Arlie Hochschild wrote The Second Shift in 1989, she set out to prove with research and interviews what working women all over the United States already knew: that they did a disproportionate amount of the household work compared to their...

The new rules for women. (working mothers)
July 1, 1993... SARAH TESLIK'S BOYS GO to bed in their school clothes. Their parents wake them at 4:30 in the morning and they go back to sleep in the back of the car while their father, who is unemployed, drives their mother to work. Then he gives them...