Executive Female articles from July 1994

Executive Female archives from July 1994

Managing the employee who cries "poor me."
July 1, 1994... NO ONE'S HAD the perfect upbringing or genetic inheritance, so in a sense, we are all victims. One employee may occasionally complain of his childhood poverty, another of her parents' divorce. You can see that the old memories still hurt. But...

Get help online.
July 1, 1994... Lila Roebuck Canuelle, a manager at Pro-Connect, an advertising firm in Mattawan, Michigan, wanted to establish a smoke-free office. "It wasn't going to be a simple process, though, because we had several smokers in the office who were already...

Making an old career pay off in a new business.
July 1, 1994... HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON WAS STILL A Little Rock lawyer when Mary Casey, Corinne Maioli and Lorri McGarvey discovered the notion of managed care, now a major component of healthcare reform. In the mid-'80s, the three nurses were working at John...

Entrepreneurial problem solver; finding a financial mentor.
July 1, 1994... WHAT BETTER WAY to enhance your business expertise than to hook up with a seasoned entrepreneur who, having found solutions to problems similar to yours, can give you customized guidance. The Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training (WNET),...

Franchise finds; buying a he-man franchise.
July 1, 1994... Quick! Say the name LubePro's three times and describe the image you see: Guys with bulging biceps and the ability to open oil cans with their teeth, right? That isn't quite what Marge Lundquist had in mind when she became the first female sole...

Financing; when your bank says no.
July 1, 1994... It's no secret that small-business financing has been in scarce supply over the last few years. With the economy sluggish, a high rate of bankruptcies and banks saddled with nonperforming loans, lenders have been stingy with their capital. ...

How to get the whole staff thinking.
July 1, 1994... Everyone knows stories of innovative thinkers who, having been ignored or fired by their employers, go off to begin brilliantly successful businesses based on their ideas, sometimes even launching whole new industries. Less talked about, but...

The woman who saved 500 jobs. (Chris Cole of AT and T)
July 1, 1994... It seemed an impossible task: Rescue a plant that was in total disarray, a facility that had been through a dozen senior bosses and was about to be shut down. But Chris Cole saved the Atlanta Service Center, AT&T's sole US operation for...

A life worth living. (creating a fulfilling work life)
July 1, 1994... The life that Charles and Elizabeth Handy have fashioned for themselves is instructive to anyone struggling to find a better solution to the confounding work/life equation. It's that question we keep asking: How much do I parcel out to the many...

How to convince almost anyone of almost anything.
July 1, 1994... Women may not learn negotiating skills in the playground, but it's never too late to polish your tactics right on the firing line "Don't be selfish." "Think of other people first." "Don't take more than your share." When...

Take our daughters to NAFE. (National Association for Female Executives)
July 1, 1994... Early in the morning on April 28, the offices at NAFE headquarters in New York suddenly filled with young girls ranging in age from 11 to 13. Like millions around the country, the 16 girls at NAFE that day, almost all part of the NAFE Esteem...

3 no-headache investment strategies.
July 1, 1994... IF YOUR SCHEDULE didn't already resemble the invasion of Normandy, you could bury yourself in charts--tracking trading volume, moving averages and Dow Jones industrials. You could spot trends and turning points, rallies and slumps. As it is,...

Do-it-yourself publicity.
July 1, 1994... WHETHER YOU want to tap into a new market of customers, enhance your company's name recognition or launch a new product, getting good press can make a low-cost publicity campaign worth even more than an expensive, glitzy advertising push....

How good are you at setting goals?
July 1, 1994... Remember Alice in Wonderland? At one point in the story, Alice stops at the crossroads to ask the Cheshire Cat which road to take. He responds by asking where she wants to go. When she tells him she "doesn't much care where," he replies, "Then...

Reading groups: a working woman's retreat.
July 1, 1994... ARENAISSANCE of the book group is occurring in living rooms and coffee shops across America. And it is primarily women who gather for these regular discussions, which range in content from Toni Morrison to Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf. For...

The relay race of life. (mentoring)
July 1, 1994... AS WE WERE PLAYING with our broccolirice-chicken and wondering what had possessed us to spend a glorious Sunday afternoon at the annual meeting of the historical society, the speaker wrapped up an unusually disorganized and pointless...