by Bonnie Marcus | Nov 12, 2012 | Assertive Communication, leadership, relationship building and women, Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
I had the pleasure of being the keynote speaker and coach at the Women in Leadership Conference in Nairobi, Kenya last week. Women from six different East African countries attended to learn the skills that will help them advance their careers. Never having been to...
by Bonnie Marcus | Oct 28, 2012 | gender diversity, leadership, Success
We lack female representation in our electoral politics today. The U.S. Congress is currently comprised of 16.8 percent women and our state legislatures 23.6 percent. How does this lack of female participation and gender equality affect the overall agenda of...
by Bonnie Marcus | Oct 21, 2012 | life lessons, Success
Do you call upon your optimism and hope to help you move your career and business forward? I recently read Deborah Mills-Scofields article in Harvard Business Review on Hope is a Strategy that opened my eyes to how optimism and hope (based on reality) can give us the...
by Bonnie Marcus | Oct 14, 2012 | Assertive Communication, leadership, networking, Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
A soon to be published study, A Status Enhancement Account of Overconfidence, from the Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley reveals that overconfidence helps people attain more respect, prominence, and influence. Confidence may or may not be...
by Bonnie Marcus | Oct 7, 2012 | fear and anxiety, fear of failure, self-esteem, Success, Women in Business
Last week I attended the Pennsylvania Conference for Women and had the pleasure of hearing Arianna Huffington speak. She shared her ideas about what it takes to be successful for a woman in business today. My biggest take-away from her talk was when she spoke about...
by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 30, 2012 | gender diversity, leadership, networking, relationship building and women, Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
Imagine this. You are a competent, highly skilled woman. You work hard and expect that opportunities for advancement will present themselves. But, they dont. Youre puzzled. Youre doing everything youve been told to get ahead and its not working. Whats going on?...
by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 23, 2012 | gender diversity, leadership, relationship building and women, Success, Women in Business
A wise woman told me early in my career, that I should hire to my weakness. In other words, figure out the things that I am not particularly good at or that I hate to do and hire people who excel at these things. For example, I am not a great detail person. Assembling...
by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 16, 2012 | Assertive Communication, Communication, fear and anxiety, relationship building and women, Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
This past week on my radio show, GPS Your Career, I had a lively discussion with Margaret Heffernan about what it takes for women to be successful in business today. Quickly the conversation turned to the importance of building relationships for career advancement and...
by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 9, 2012 | goal setting, leadership, Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
I had a client, a female attorney for a large healthcare system, tell me last week that when she approached her boss about her desire to move her career forward, he was surprised. That prompted me to think about our relationship to ambition, how others in the...
by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 2, 2012 | goal setting, leadership, networking, relationship building and women, Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
The Republican National Convention took place last week and the Democratic National Convention is coming up soon. As the November election approaches, we are bombarded with local and national political ads on TV, radio, print, and online with increased frequency. As a...
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