Share the Praise-Forget the Blame
I admit it. I wanted the USA’s women soccer team to win over Japan. I was pumped for the final. HOWEVER, I did not play, some very talented and incredible athletes did – on both teams. Looking at the bigger picture, one other disappointing thing about the US Women Soccer Team’s loss in the “2011 World’s Cup” was a majorities trending to see it as something personal. The reality was that Japan won, the American team and women’s soccer in general were also the winners, albeit for different reasons. After all there can be only one champ. The line of...
Read MoreColleen J. Payne: 2011 Positively Powerful Woman Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Colleen J. Payne-Nabors will receive the 2011 Positively Powerful Woman Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership on May 20th for her vision as expressed through the founding of six successful companies including the award winning Mobile Cardiac Imaging, LLC, (dba) MCI Diagnostic Center. Under her leadership as founder and CEO, MCI Diagnostic Center has become one of the most successful and well-positioned companies in the medical industry. Inc. Magazine listed her company as one of the 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America.
Read MoreVivian Squire: 2011 Positively Powerful Corporate Woman Award
The 2011 Positively Powerful Corporate Woman Award will be given to Vivian Squire Supervisor, SRP Human Resources Learning & Development Services: Employee & Management Development on May 20th in Phoenix for her contributions as a skilled organizational leader and corporate contributor focused on rapid executive, individual, team and operations improvement; for her commitment to leadership development, diversity and managing change; for her representation of the third-largest public power utility in the nation.
Read MoreKay Kallander: Positively Powerful Woman of Global Leadership Award
The Positively Powerful Woman of Global Leadership Award will be given to Kay Kallander for her many contributions as Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning American Baptist Homes of the West (ABHOW); for her design and launch of The Grove, an acclaimed memory support program; and the launch of Leadership ABHOW.
Read MoreViolence Against Women
Stieg Larsson’ s entertaining and disturbing novels “The Millennium Trilogy” are about the violence that women suffer at the hands of men, which unfortunately is universally. In reading all three books and the way women are described in Sweden (in the novels) served to heighten our own listening to how women are regarded here in the US. While the language is often not as offensive, there is still an overt signal of male imposed dominance over women. We can hear it clearly in some of our most popular music. We can see it in many of the hit movies and TV shows where women become...
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