Executive Female articles from May 1991

Executive Female archives from May 1991

Unknot the noose. (consumer credit rights) (Debt)
May 1, 1991... Few things are worse than having a bad credit report hanging around your neck. Before applying for a loan, obtain a copy of your credit report and resolve any adverse information. if you have been denied credit, you are entitled to a free copy...

One OK on VDTs. (video display terminals and risk of miscarriage) (Health)
May 1, 1991... There's good news-sort of-about the risk of miscarriage from video display terminals. The most detailed study so far has found that women who spend all day working at computer display terminals suffer no more miscarriages than women performing...

Where the jobs are. (Careers)
May 1, 1991... If you're looking for a job, Nevada may be the place for you. For the second year in a row, the Sagebrush State led all 50 in the number of new jobs added in 1990, with some 35,500 people joining the ranks of the employed. Utah and Idaho were...

The great communicators. (favorable employee qualities) (Worker Skills)
May 1, 1991... Likeable people and good writers have the workplace edge, according to a subscriber survey by communication briefings(TM), a Blackwood, New Jersey-based newsletter. When asked for the top three traits preferred in employees: * 84 percent...

Root out tall tales. (false information on resumes) (Hiring)
May 1, 1991... In some ways, hiring is harder these days. With a little imagination and a good word processor, job hunters can custom-tailor their resumes to specific employers with the flick of a switch. Perhaps that's why the dossiers of some applicants...

A career makeover: too exhausted to enjoy the living they were making, the Weinreichs created an alternative career path. (entrepreneur profile of NuSkin distributors)
May 1, 1991... Madeleine and Roger Weinreich are part of a new breed: multiple-business entrepreneurs. These intrepid managers juggle several ventures at a time. Some do it to survive, others for financial and personal freedom. The Weinreichs have chosen...

Engineering a career. (profiles of women engineers)
May 1, 1991... IMAGE BUSTER According to Maggie Hickel, industrial engineering and production manager at 3M and the president of the Society of Women Engineers, there would be a lot more women engineers if the profession had a better media image. "I'm...

How do you turn around a career disappointment? (women politicians offer advice)
May 1, 1991... 2 Nowhere is a career letdown more poignant than in the arena of politics. To add to the private disappointment, there is usually both mental and physical exhaustion, to say nothing of public humiliation. Whatever the defeat or misstep, it's...

Temp-ting solutions: more and more companies are relying on temps to respond to increased workloads. Is it economical? (temporary employees)
May 1, 1991... 6 The days when the success of a business is measured by the number of people it employs are over. These days a large payroll smacks of extravagance and is likely the sign of a business poorly run. Many companies are discovering that they...

Beat the clock. (time-management skills)
May 1, 1991... For all the gains made by working women over the past two decades, one area has always offered equal opportunity to men and women alike. Both have the same number of hours to get the job done. And while it's true that we women may face a...

Dream boss. (women executives describe their ideal supervisor)
May 1, 1991... Working in a large corporation (I started at Pan Am 19 years ago as a flight attendant), I consider the dream boss one who trains her people to take her job. That's the function of the good leader in any company. To managers who get automatic...

Executive passport: contrary to popular myth, taking a foreign assignment may be one quick route up the ladder for women.
May 1, 1991... When Carol Brown, quality control field engineer for General Dynamics, was assigned to Turkey, her marching orders from her boss included a directive to bring only dark blouses and skirts, and dress as subdued as possible. So you can...

The loan ranger: banker Darla Moore rescues collapsing corporations and their honchos from the terrors of bankruptcy.
May 1, 1991... Could you excuse me?" Darla Moore asks. "I've really got to take this call." "You don't have a thing to worry about," she tells the caller in her honey-tinged Southern drawl. A pause, then again to the caller, "Relax. I met with them...

Out but not down: now is the time to plan a severance negotiation strategy.
May 1, 1991... 2 Some things in life are predictable: The economy takes a dive, that secure feeling you used to have at your job dissolves, and as more of your friends join the unemployment lines, you find yourself with a worsening case of the...

Managing diversity: the new multicultural workforce requires a simpatico style. (integrating employees)(includes quiz to test preparedness)
May 1, 1991... Imagine that Chrysler Corporation chairman Lee Iacocca has just named his successor: an African-American woman who is a single parent. The scenario is still so far-fetched that most managers in America can't even envision it. And that's the...

Lean on me: if your mate lost his job tomorrow, would you be ready to handle it?
May 1, 1991... If your mate lost his job tomorrow, would you be ready to handle it? "Our lives took a radical turn," sighs Sandy Mitchell, 31, a Chicago sales rep, "the day Jeff lost his job." Before then Sandy was content taking whatever job she...

Networking on the go: the right approach to travel expands your network and takes the loneliness out of business trips.
May 1, 1991... Networking while on a business trip may seem like your lowest priority. if you aren't up to your ears in meetings or client lunches, there's always a crisis or two at the office or-worse yet-home. And, of course, you're suffering from jet lag....

A winning formula for business and babies: it took a smart cookie to bring kiddie care to corporate clusters. (on-site business child care) (Risk for Entrepreneurs)
May 1, 1991... Debby Berthiaume knows what it's like to juggle family and career. As a single parent 20 years ago, she got the guilts when she was unable to find quality care for her four young daughters. Her solution? She quit her teaching job, rented a room...

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. (reasons for business liability insurance) (Risk for Entrepreneurs)
May 1, 1991... When Mary Baechler and her husband Philip launched Racing Strollers Inc. seven years ago, they paid little attention to matters like insurance. "We were naive," she says with a laugh. "We're leftovers from the 60s and thought if we did things...

A piece of the pie: give employees a slice of the company - and watch them fatten the bottom line. (Risk for Entrepreneurs)
May 1, 1991... It makes sense. Give a key employee a stake in a business and she or he will work harder to make it succeed. Many studies show that this bit of popular wisdom does indeed hold true. Equity ownership improves productivity when employees believe...

Signs of the times. (commercial sign making franchise businesses owned by women) (Risk for Entrepreneurs)
May 1, 1991... These days you don't have to be an artist or a computer whiz to master commercial sign making. Using the latest in computer technology, sign shops are able to produce custom signs in a day-no more two-week turnarounds. The technology, developed...

Less is more, more or less. (thoughts on minimalism)
May 1, 1991... A highly paid creative director of a major advertising agency announced to a group of us that when she prepared to return to work after an early winter vacation, she looked at the two heavy briefcases she was packing and left them home....