Executive Female articles from March 1997

Executive Female archives from March 1997

The manager as servant. (managing highly competent and motivated employees)(The Expert Manager)
March 1, 1997... When your employees are superheroes, the best way to manage them is simply to make it as easy as possible for them to do their jobs You could say it's managing at its most humbling. If you are in charge of a staff of brainy, creative experts...

Equal rights at work. (milestones in women's workplace equality)
March 1, 1997... March is National Women's History Month. In honor of the occasion, here are a few of the milestones (some positive, some negative) in women's fight for equality in the workplace. To benchmark the progress of American women against women in...

Where the money is. (sources of small business capital; includes list of resources)(The Entrepreneur)
March 1, 1997... There's cash out there for starting and growing your business. Here's your road map to the money trail--a new business advice Q I have been in business for two years, operating a training and consulting company. We have grown beyond my...

What is an entrepreneur?(Special Focus: Being Your Own Boss)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1997... That's the question we editors found ourselves pondering one morning as we sat around a conference table planning this issue on women entrepreneurs. The Lillian Vernons and Liz Claibornes of the world would undoubtedly qualify, of course. But...

The new American herioines. (women entrepreneurs)(Special Focus: Being Your Own Boss)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1997... They're not the usual suspects. They're women like us who saw their chance and thumbed their noses at naysayers. Each parlayed different talents and less-than-ideal circumstances into multimillion-dollar businesses, fashioning their own brands of...

Think big, start small. (starting a new business; includes list of low-cost resources)(Special Focus: Being Your Own Boss)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1997... Got a great business idea but feel squeamish? Here are three ways to ease into entrepreneurship and build your dream business--one brick at a time Entrepreneurship implies big, gutsy moves--quitting your job, scrambling for clients, hitting...

Getting your share. (women-owned businesses and government contracts; includes related article on business women who won government contracts)
March 1, 1997... The US government is the largest buyer of goods and services in the world, awarding more than $200 billion in contracts for everything from paper clips to missiles. About $3.8 billion--or 1.8 percent--went to woman-owned businesses. Here's how to...

Women on the verge. (women executives in the motion picture industry; includes list of milestones toward women's equality in the motion picture industry)
March 1, 1997... On the corporate back lots of Hollywood, it's still men who are the deal-makers and dream-breakers. But women are barging into the corporate offices and starting up businesses of their own. Hollywood may never be the same In recent...

When is an assignment too risky?(Career Workshop)
March 1, 1997... What seems on the surface to be a career-building opportunity may end up a career-killer. Here's how to decide whether an assignment is worth the risk Your boss, with due pomp, is recruiting you to open a satellite office, start a new...

Rescue a fading job hunt.(Career Workshop)
March 1, 1997... You've done everything to generate job leads. This has included calling everyone you know and know of answering want ads, calling and mailing to headhunters, calling in markers from friends for introductions and using the Yellow Pages and...

Five myths of age and employment. (age discrimination facts)(Career Workshop)
March 1, 1997... Yes, of course age discrimination exists, and baby boomers and baby busters sometimes seem like different species. Nevertheless, most rumors about the effect of age on employment aren't true and become less so every day. Here are some you may...

Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision.
March 1, 1997... By David Bollier for the Business Enterprise Trust (Amacom, $24.95) As a child of the nonconformist 1960s, I never could have imagined that moral leadership in the 1990s would be provided by CEOs and entrepreneurs. Yet for reasons as diverse...

Career Buster: 22 Things People Do to Mess up Their Careers and How to Avoid Them.
March 1, 1997... By Arthur D. Rosenberg (McGraw-Hill, $10.95) As a recent victim of downsizing, I approached this book with, you might say, skeptical eagerness. Skeptical because, after all, there are a ton of books like this. Eager because I really wanted...

An Empty Vessel, Infinitely Useful: The Tao of Personal Leadership.
March 1, 1997... By Diane Dreher (Harper Business, $13) The Chinese classic, the Tao Te Ching, was designed as a handbook for leaders 25 centuries ago. Inspired by nature, Laotzu, who composed its 81 poems, learned from observing a mountain stream or grove...

Friend versus job. (value conflicts in the workplace)(Column)
March 1, 1997... Conflict between your company's interests and your own is a tough ethical call. When a lifelong friend is involved, the decision gets even tougher. Over the past few months, in the midst of collecting anecdotes for a new book (titled Do as...