by Bonnie Marcus | Feb 13, 2011 | leadership, Self Promotion, Women in Business
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to speak at Harvard Business School’s Dynamic Women in Business Conference. Our panel discussion was titled, Working in Heels: Women in the Workplace today, and the focus of the discussion was the internal barriers and...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jan 16, 2011 | Assertive Communication, leadership, networking, Self Promotion, Women in Business
A recent Catalyst study demonstrates that mentoring does not help career advancement to the degree that sponsorship does. Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. Usually sponsors have more senior positions than mentors, and it...
by Bonnie Marcus | Mar 14, 2010 | gender diversity, leadership, Women in Business
For those of you who follow my radio show, Head Over Heels: Women’s Business Radio (formerly Women Mean Business), you know that I am passionate about women advancing their careers and assuming more leadership positions. The weekly show, which is broadcast every...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jan 10, 2010 | Entrepreneurs, leadership, networking, Success, Women in Business
Does this describe you? Desperately trying to keep your job or business from swallowing you up? Totally focused on completing all your daily tasks but never getting through your to do list? Working nights and weekends to catch up? Stressed? Exhausted? Do you find the...
by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 4, 2009 | gender diversity, leadership, Success, Women in Business
In 1986, an article in The Wall Street Journal by Carol Hymowitz and Timothy Schellhardt first introduced the term Glass Ceiling. The illustration that accompanied the article showed a woman in a business suit pushing up against a glass barrier. After that article,...
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