Executive Female articles from July 1997

Executive Female archives from July 1997

Be a manager and a part-timer too. (includes interview with part-time management expert Sandra Sullivan)(The Expert Manager)
July 1, 1997... Why do part-timers have such a hard time hanging on to hard-won management duties? the answer lies in part with the nature of the management beast itself. Managers, at least the good ones, make themselves available to coach, supervise,...

Manage your team one person at a time. (excerpt from All I really Need to Know in Business I Learned at Microsoft)(The Expert Manager)
July 1, 1997... In 1990 Julie Bick, a newly minted Wharton MBA, joined Microsoft as a product manager and over the next six years proved herself time and a,gain as a manager. In her final position (in charge of marketing and new-product planning for 20 CD-ROM...

Employees can help recruit new talent.(The Expert Manager)
July 1, 1997... When employees are looking for a job, it's often who they know that counts. The same maxim holds true for employers. Some of the greatest resources in the quest for strong candidates to fill open positions are current employees. Birds...

5 steps to a perfect pension. (retirement planning advice)(Personal Finance)
July 1, 1997... Yes, a financially secure retirement is possible--and you can plan it yourself: This easy-to-follow strategy will help you get there Sometime in the next 20 years, most of us will morph from our high-earning zeniths to our retirement golden...

What's wrong with this letter? (sales letter)(The Entrepreneur)
July 1, 1997... A sales letter doesn't have to be terrible to be worthy of improvement. Most business owners know how to write a competent letter. If they didn't, they probably had one heck of a time trying to get their businesses up and running. But...

Cash from investors. (raising investor capital; includes sources of information about venture capital)(The Entrepreneur)
July 1, 1997... Finding investors is a logical next step for a company ready to expand. Is it right for you--and can you attract investor cash? Q Four years ago, I took a $5,000 loan and started a part-time catering company. Since that time, the company has...

Boost your career at NAFE's leadership summit. (National Association for Female Executives)(Conference Preview)
July 1, 1997... In celebration of a quarter century of the achievements of women in business, NAFE continues its mission with a groundbreaking event: the 25th Anniversary Leadership Summit. On November 14th and 15th in Atlanta, NAFE will bring together women...

A big voice for small business; the SBA's outspoken new administrators gives entrepreneurs new muscle on Capital Hill. (US Small Business Administration head Ada Alverez)(Cover Story)(Interview)
July 1, 1997... Aida Alvarez became the first hispanic woman and the first Puerto Rican to hold a Cabinet-level position when President Clinton tapped her to head the US Small Business Administration (SBA) this year. As administrator for the SBA, a government...

Live with life's limits - happily. (excerpt from Having It All/Having Enough: How to Create a Career/Family Balance that Works for You)(includes related article on what employers can do to help employees balance family and work)
July 1, 1997... No, it's not you. Stop trying to manage your way out of every time, energy and money crunch. The way to finally find sanity in your life is to work on what you can change and ignore what you can't. See of this sounds familiar: limits, it...

Turning points: frank talk from top executives about the moments that changed their careers forever. (women executives)
July 1, 1997... Being told to scale back her career goals because she was African-American was a turning point for Brenda Lauderback of Nine West Group, Inc. For Nancy Sanders Peterson, head of a tool manufacturing company, it was the tragic death of her...

Get your way using lawyers' techniques. (persuasion techniques)
July 1, 1997... If you fail to ask for what you want clearly and explicitly, you'll lose your case. But you don't need a law degree to master the art of persuasion. From the moment the O.J. Simpson trial began, prosecutors confused the jurors by not...

Family and medical leave: the courts step in. (court interpretations of the Family and Medical Leave Act)(includes synopsis of the Family and Medical Leave Act)
July 1, 1997... After kicking around in Congress for years and being dubbed "the bill that wouldn't die," the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was finally enacted in 1993. The concept seemed simple enough Workers were guaranteed time off from their jobs...

Sidelined: your choice or theirs? (career development advice)
July 1, 1997... Nothing strikes terror in an employee's heart as quickly as finding herself increasingly out of the loop--marginalized, as they say. You've seen the signs, you may even have been an unwilling participant. What happens is this: An employee is...

The new court reporter. (job opportunities; includes related article on opportunities for executive recruiters)(Career Workshop)
July 1, 1997... As we plow into the 21st century, absolutely nothing (with the exception of getting online with AOL) is slowing down. And in keeping with the hypertechnology in our lives, some careers are shedding a formerly dowdy image like Clark Kent's...

Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality.
July 1, 1997... Things aren't what they used to be. No longer are there commercials in prime-time slots that feature a man giving his wife a hug and saying, "She's my wife; I think I'll keep her." No longer are women excluded from most jobs only because of...

The Money Club: The Park Avenue Women's Guide to Personal Finance.
July 1, 1997... Nine out of ten women will have to assume control of their financial planning within their lifetime. Yet fewer than two out of those ten are prepared to do so. Why have we been positively belligerent about maintaining our financial...

Women's Wire Web Directory.
July 1, 1997... Most directories are what I refer to as "thumbers": large, heavy tomes to be thumbed through as quickly as possible because they are really pretty boring. But sometimes you run across a directory that has been so well researched--and well...

Below the balloons. (boosting one's self-esteem)
July 1, 1997... When your ego has been drained like a pot of spaghetti, what you need is a piquant pick-me-up. And forget about working out at the gym: That just doesn't cut it. I have written a second book. With this event, unlike the first, the publisher...