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Innovator Charlene Li Communicates her Vision with Passion

After another Spring break, ("le pont du mois de mai": "bridge" for long May week ends  in France...), I'm back  with an Inspiring  Role Model for Women Leaders.

Following up with my Women Speakers Series, here is another illustration for the Innovator Style of Leadership, with Charlene Li.

The corporate world would be such a better place if more leaders were to invent a new kind of leadership, an "innovative leadership", an open leadership, opening new possibilities, solutions and collaborations. We need more role models, especially for girls and women, to show us the way and inspire us to action. That's the reason why I'm writing this series, and collecting stories of remarquable women leaders, from different cultures, with different personal styles and values. We can't identify anymore with the stereotyped representation of the "LEADER" ( a WASP Superhero). We aspire for different models, reflecting the diversity of the world, in cultures, in genders, in classes, in skin colors, and ...in souls also.

Now, back to Charlene Li!

Typically, someone communicating with a strong preference for The Innovator dimension (from the SPM Spony Profiling Model), would be seen as:

"Prolific and creative brain-stormers who are attracted by abstract issues and intellectual challenges. Attached to freedom of expression, they feel comfortable in initiating original and unconventional projects."

There are many American women leaders who fit in The Innovator Style of Leadership and Communication. Just like the Persuader and the Pioneer styles, it makes perfect sense with the Anglo-Saxon cultural result and change orientation:

• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Pragmatic
• Informal style
• Openness for change

One of the most famous today is Charlene Li, and I want to make a special post about her and highlight her communication and leadership style.

Who is Charlene Li?   Who does she know?    What does she do?

I'm asking these 3 questions, because it's what Charlene stresses in her talk, and I found it original and fun to present her this way, as well!

Who are you? IDENTITY

Who do you know? RELATIONSHIPS

What do you do? ACTIVITIES

Who is Charlene Li?

Her Identity? You can find everything about her on her site: charleneli.com

She's the founder of Altimeter. Altimeter is " a strategy firm that provides clients with a pragmatic approach to using new technologies".

Three keywords here: Pragmatic, New and Technologies

Who does she know and who knows her?

" Charlene is frequently quoted by leading media channels such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC.  As noted social technologist, Charlene has earned a vast following through her blogs, website, columns, articles, and keynotes." (from her website)

Her social networks could be illustrated by one of them, Twitter:

What does she do?

She "provides clients with a pragmatic approach to using new technologies"

She creates: she writes blogs and books (the last one is a must read "Open Leadership", I have ordered it and will write a post about it very soon)

... and she speaks at SX about The Future of Social Networks!

Why is she emblematic of the Innovative Leadership and communication style?

She was named one of the 12 most creative minds of 2008 by Fast Company, and one of the most influential women in technology 2009.

She's innovative in the way she talks:

• Simply

• With energy and passion

• Openly

• Fast paced

• Informally, dressed casually

She's innovative in what she says:

• Future oriented she takes us 5,10,15, 20 years from now!

• Visionary: "The Social network will be like air" "Open: how open leaders win by letting go"
  

• Planting new Ideas, Encouraging Change:  "The open network will be the new norm."
  

               "Leaders will engage at all levels, outside as well as inside the organization."

She's a role model for the next generation of girls and young women entrepreneurs and business owners and might also be an inspiration for women executives who aspire to be on the 21st century boards!

She's congruent : her style of communication conveys who she really is, how she's perceived as a leader, leading from the inside out, openly and pragmatically. She really is an open leader.

"If you truly want to get advantage of the social networks, you've got to get your own identity, inside your house, in order." Charlene Li.

If you truly want to be a leader, start by leading yourself, with your own style and create your own life!

Next, in Geronimo Leadership Women Series, the Networker, with Arianna Huffington

How to Ease You into Achieving your Goals? One step at a Time!

 This morning, I had a wonderful workout running session. It took only 30 minutes of my day, and it made me feel great for the rest of the day.

You maybe saying, "no big deal", everybody exercises, runs and don't write posts about it.

The difference with me, is that I have tried many times, and given up after the first run! I love walking, and I can walk pretty fast, but I just hate running.

I feel awful as soon as I start: my heart seems to be exploding in my chest, my head hurts, my whole body is begging me to stop!

(The lovely path where I run/walk, around the corner of our house in South Beaujolais.)

Does it sound familiar?

Starting, with great energy, passion and enthusiasm, ...and then experiencing unexpected obstacles and persuading yourself it's just not for you. Feeling bad about it. Giving it another try, and giving it up. Feeling awful about yourself. and blaming your lack of will-power and self-discipline.

You could replace starting running by:

• Quitting smoking
• Starting exercising
• Moving into a healthy and balanced diet
• Focusing on your personal and professional priorities
• Sticking to your commitments
• Taking action into major areas in your life (personal, social, professional)
• Achieving financial freedom
• Completing major tasks,assignments, projects
• Writing that book!
• Mastering the discipline in your life in general!

Every time I quit, I tell myself : I'm not a "born-runner", this is just not my thing, I should just give up trying. Some would call it a "limiting belief", I guess or simply a good excuse for not achieving my goals. I have been told I should be patient, give myself some time to do it progressively.

And, as soon as I'm out with my running outfit and shoes, I feel compelled to run, ride like the wind, like in Christopher Cross's song...And forget I'm a beginner and I need a method, a gentle way to ease me into running.

What's the lesson for Achieving Your Goals?

It's all about strategy and motivation!

You must be familiar with the acronym SMART for setting objectives.

In my case, I realized that it was not enough. My objective for running was SMART:

• Specific : I wanted to be able to run at least 30 mins in a row, 3 times a week
• Measurable: time and kms
• Ambitious: I hated running!
• Realistic: I'm rather sportive and in good shape, I live in the country side
• Time Related: 3 times a week, 30 min, withing 3 weeks!

Yet, all of my attempts until now failed. Why?

When I see how simple, zero cost, quick and effective running  can be, how it can strengthen my confidence to achieve other goals in my life... I tell myself, there must be a way!

Here's the story of how it all started. If you prefer shorter posts and would rather have the take out, skip to the end!

It all started thanks to Angela Dunn, @BlogBrevity, who wrote an inspiring post  about running with some intercontinental twitter friends and easy steps into running for beginners.

I joined her immediately, with my usual enthusiasm, and frolicked in the snowy hills! :-)

Even wrote a post immediately after this heroic( baby steps) run in the snow, with pictures!

The next days, for a week, it was really impossible to run, with the icy roads( no, really!)

When I started again, I forgot about the running and walking method, it was too cold, I was out of breath, I run for too long and I felt awful afterwards...

I had forgotten about my key motivators, which were enjoying a pleasurable experience and being proud of myself for achieving small steps and reporting my little success, with some accountability.

I had also forgotten to give myself some methodology, a strategy to progress towards my objective, breaking my goal into smaller chunks and anticipating the obstacles.

I wanted to go directly from zero to 30 mins!

At that time, my dream was to have the support from my running Twitter friends, some music and some clear and precise instructions to follow up!

I even asked Angela on twitter, quite candidly, if there was an app for it!

So I simply googled the question "How to run for beginners" and "Is there an App for beginner runners"?

And I found C25K Plan.

Brilliant!

For only $ 2,99, it enables you to have directly in your ears a step-by-step instruction of when to warm-up, when to run, when to walk, 3 days a week, until you build strength.

And you can customize it with your own music, thanks to your existing iTunes library, just with a simple click!

Now, I'm looking forward these runs and feeling so proud of myself!

Take away, for any goal you want to achieve:

• Define Your Goal in a SMART way
• Identify your Key Motivators
• Break your goal into smaller chunks, easily achieved
• Design a Strategy, according to your values
• Follow your Strategy via a clear plan
• Get some support, mentoring or coaching , especially at the beginning
• Share your goal with a buddy, with your manager
• Think about rewarding yourself and celebrating the achievement!

It's the first Monday of May, what is the most important goal you want to achieve this month? Did you prepare yourself for success?

Please share in your comments your goals, your stories, what works best for you regarding achieving goals, and what you may also find difficult right now, what sort of help or feedback you wish you had?

A New Beginning: Here Comes Geronima!

After a Spring break, I'm back with my Women Speakers Series, ready to blog about Women, Leadership and Creativity.

Women in big corporations, or women entrepreneurs?

Women learning to play the rules in a men's world or women creating their own rules, in a new world?

What about new learning, women adopting new technologies with ancient wisdom? Women embracing change with confidence, wild and raw power and generous enthusiasm in a global world?

Too many topics, too many tags, too many categories. What about the focus I had decided at the end of last year? Women Leaders and Presentation Skills?

Time to pause and reflect.

What happened?

During the last two weeks, mother nature has been very generous with us, at home, in France.

• Our family expanded. My husband 's eldest daughter gave birth to a beautiful baby boy , we all went to visit her in Arcachon, near Bordeaux
• Back home, we spent one week taking care of our garden, harvesting  the blossoming flowers and trees  with our ...seven children. 
• I took a break from blogging and put my professional project on hold.

Our home has been a busy beehive! I gave myself 100% to my family's needs and adapted myself to the telluric changes such an event meant into our lives, for my husband and me, too.

What did I learn?

• I reflected on women's ages and aging, took comfort in reading the wisdom of older women. I connected with plenty of wonderful young grand-mothers, around me and on twitter and shared experiences with them.I met Julie Daley and her wonderful blog and passion for the creative power of women.
• I discovered a whole new world and also realized I had still a long way to go, to get my youngest ones (and the big ones too!) ready for adulthood.
• I was reminded that time was running. I was not ready to become a retired grand-ma.I had still plenty of things to accomplish.I felt torn between a sense of eternity and emergency.

What are the challenges today?

Feeding my big family, making money out of my business, living my talk and empowering myself, as a woman.

• I received two major training and consulting offers, which will imply transformation in my business, more travels, shifts in my clients. It took me back to my past expertise, to the corporate world and big business schools and universities. Is it what I wanted to spend the rest of my days doing? The clients who called me wanted me to coach men senior managers. How am I going to fit in all? Where does Geronimo fit ? Where is my soul?
• I also reflected on my experience with "Your Next Presentation", the innovative and interactive online training and coaching tool I had launched back in January. People seemed to be very curious and interested, but nobody bought it! I was also very shy at promoting it, almost ashamed of making a sales page, of tweeting and blogging about it. Having very mixed feelings about marketing techniques for coaches, and still looking for my true way to sell, being kind and entertaining, and not too pushy, but still selling! I still very much believe it can work, provided I find the way to market it to the people who need it!

Who are the people I want to spend most time working with?

• Who are my customers? Corporate executives, MBA students, high potential managers? Am I really writing for those when I'm blogging, when I'm twitting? When I'm building cooperation via Skype with wonderful brilliant women across the world?
• Or women entrepreneurs? Women in transition, just like me, just like you, women consultants, coaches, trainers, business owners who desperately want to prove they can make it, even if it's an everyday chalenge? To blossom as a woman, as a mom as a business owner, as a peaceful warrior, as global citizen, as a creative human being?

Wow! I needed a big breathing space to think about it all!

Today, everybody's back to school with new classes (the 3 youngest), to university with new exams (3 oldest),back home with a new baby (the new mom), back to the corporate world with new projects( my hubby) and back to Geronimo Leadership for me!

Where's my North Pole Star? What's my vision? What are my priorities? What's my next step?

Why am I writing all this?

Because Geronimo is slowly morphing into a new Geronima, a feminine creative essence of the wild woman 's wisdom.

And sharing the process of this transformation is exactly what I want to spend my time doing during the next half of my life.

Giving birth to the new Eve and being the midwife of other women's blossoming.

Because I am re-designing a new website, where I will package all my expertise to serve women entrepreneurs, who want to transform their dreams into reality, a step-by-step road-map, helping them keep their soul, their compass and their energy and have fun doing it!

The feminine Anima of Geronimo is emerging. I still have my bow and my arrows, I'm still riding my wild horse, but I don't have to pretend to be an old Male Apache Chief anymore.

Because I care for you and wanted to let you know the changes ahead.

I would love to hear your feedback and reactions to this post where I'm sharing my truth and my vulnerability. I really care for your feedback.

Transition places are not famous for being comfortable and in the midst of my life, I'm torn between conflicting directions again (like in the myth of Demeter and Artemis, I shared earlier in a post)

Here are 3 questions for you:

1. What do you think about the change from Geronimo to Geronima?
2. What would you like to find more of in this blog, now that it's more focused on women entrepreneurs and less on big corporations?
3. Do you have a similar story you would like to share here? A story of transition or a challenge about positioning yourself, about finding your niche, about getting to know which client you want to work with?

Another Role Model for Women: Coco Chanel & Innovative Leadership

Have you seen Coco before Chanel, a movie directed by Anne Fontaine?

I loved the atmosphere, the actors, the costume, of course and the personality emerging, a mix of irreverence, modernism, feminism and classicism. And a beautiful love story...

"With a mixture of brutal candor and tender sympathy, it charts the rise of an ambitious, difficult woman, taking note of the obstacles and opportunities offered by her time, place and circumstances.Coco starts out as seamstresses with an eye for novelty and a keen aesthetic sense. Coco disdains corsets, sometimes dresses in men’s garments, and adapts simple hats and fisherman’s shirts to marvelously chic effect." Movie review- New York Times.

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

                                                                                                    Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

Coco Chanel was a true innovator.

She was the first to let go of corsets and bustles and helped women reconciliate with their bodies, out of the prison of their 19th century satin's cage.

She was a visionary woman, leading the way as an independent business woman, an artist, an emancipated woman.

She was a woman on a crusade, too!

In my next post, I will analyze her communication style, thanks to some French television archives, and translate them for you. She's even more amazing than you could imagine, and can teach us great lessons in communication.

Who will be the Coco Chanel of the 21rst century (and please, don't tell me Karl Lagerfield!!! :-)

Tough New-Yorker No Nonsense Style

“Believe That There Are No Limitations, No Barriers to Your Success – You Will Be Empowered and You Will Achieve.”

 

 Angela Burns, could represent The Achiever Communication style, in my series about Women Speakers

 January, with  Meg Whitman, The laser Light with a Big Smile, illustrating the Persuader Communication Style,

 

February, with Gail Evans, with Play like a Man, Win like a Woman, for the Pioneer communication style.

If you're curious  about the 12 Communication styles, please read my latest post the SPM Profiling Tool Innovative, Cross-cultural and 21st century ready.

• What are the Key characteristics of The Achiever Style?

Achievers bring to their organisations a determination to achieve and an effective, focused and fast-paced working style.

Sensitive to concrete results, Achievers are more comfortable with concise and factual information rather than too much detail.

Assertive and direct, they can become blunt and impatient under stress.

(from the Spony Profiling Model Feedback Guide)

• What are the Key characteristics of the opposite style, The facilitator?

Facilitators are viewed as friendly, spending time seeking agreement and consensus.

Good at listening, they are sometimes seen to be too dependent on other people's opinions, or lacking effectiveness.

They communicate with enthusiasm, show empathy, maintain eye contact, are expressive, understanding. Under stress, they can become emotional and irrational.

• Why is Ursula Burns best to represent The  dilemna between Achiever and Facilitation Communication Style?

Hard-charging and blunt, Burns admitted to “letting my big mouth drive the discussion” and conceded, “Patience is not one of my strengths.”

 She has never been shy about speaking her mind.

Some people gave her sound advices:

At Xerox, one of her mentors, Mr Hicks advised her to "make people feel comfortable by listening carefully, not to intimidate them!" (communicating more as a "Facilitator")

Her best mentor and coach, after her mother, is of course Ann Calaway, former CEO of Xerox. Ann Callaway said: "You have to develop more of a poker face because people will watch you for everything."

"On my face, you could tell everything in 30 seconds. You could tell exasperation. You could tell fed-up-ness."

Ursula Burns listened to her mentors, but not to people who told her to adjust her speaking style. People told her that it was "too New York"- too fast, too informal.

“What I realized was I have to know my content and know what I want to say, and be significantly less concerned about how I say it,” she says.

• What's in it for YOU?

If you identify with the Achiever's style of communication and leadership:

Be cautious about not becoming too blunt or impatient.

Ask for feedback.

Find yourself a mentor and listen to her, to him.

Observe leaders around you who display more the characteristics of the Facilitator style and see what you can learn from them.

Learn to listen

Express empathy

and let go of the pressure for results, once in a while...

It's one of the 6 dilemna, coping both with a desire to achieve results and expressing consideration for others.

I'm feeling terribly shy to pretend to give any advice to this awesome woman...

What can be said for Her?

In her speeches to students, like at Syracuse University , Ursula Burns could have been less serious,more engaging and have had an even greater impact.

She could improve simply by smiling more and making eye contact,(just like in the great smiling picture on the right!), staying less time on her notes, and more often with the audience. Notice how her face becomes animated and her eyes sparkle when she answers questions or tells us a story. She would also express a little more of who she is, communicating her formidable generosity and gift of giving.

So I would tell her to be even more of herself!

Tough New-Yorker No Nonsense Style!!!

 

“I can’t try to say it in somebody else’s voice. I have to say it in my voice.” Angela Burns

 

I believe in the power of examples and picked 12 famous women leaders, from different cultures, to illustrate each style of communication and leadership.These conclusions are based on my observations, perceptions and interpretations, since these women have not yet taken the SPM questionnaire.

6 Leadership Lessons From Ursula Burns:" Bold Bets and Back to Basics"

In order to study Ursula Burns' communication style, I watched several videos of her.

• Ursula Burns Speaks of Leadership
• YWCA Inspirational Words

It's incredible what we can have access to, now, thanks to the web.

I could even view a brilliant lecture, given by Ursula Burns at Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, on May, 11th 2008. I felt like I was sitting in front of her, with the audience .

In this video, Ursula Burns shares her views on the challenges and opportunities facing leaders in corporate America, in Berman Lecture Series.

“Lessons of Leadership: Bold Bets and Back to Basics."

It' a long speech (one hour). I just took notes for you via this MindMap of the six points she very clearly made, in order to visualize them and reflect.

Six Very Simple Things: Basics!

• The Power of Communication
• The Power of Culture
  
• The Power of Vision
• The Power of People
• The Power of Customer
• The Value of Leadership

As Angela Burns admits, she doesn't read a lot of business books. That 's why these 6 lessons make so much sense .

These lessons are taken from hard work, great results, dedicated people.

They don't come from leadership theories, but from years of experience. (Ursula Burns entered Xerox as an intern in the summer of 1980!)

No fancy words, Bold Bets and Back To Basics!

What can women and men too,learn from such a successful Role Model?

This applies for this major corporation, but I believe it boils down to the same basics, for a small business,for a team and for an individual.

Imagine you start on a coaching journey:

• First, start by being blunt honest about who you are: clear communication about where you are NOW.

• Look at your own "culture", your core values and beliefs.

• Then  picture yourself at the front page (vision board exercise) "What would you want to read about yourselves? What great work are you going to do?" What do you want to be famous for? How do you want to be remembered?

• People. "Good people aligned around a common goal could do just anything". Align yourself first with your values,around your vision, and then reach for others. Consolidate the basis.

• Who are you serving? What's Your Mission?

• Eventually, be a good leader of your life: consistent, honest,forceful and clear.

You will move mountains.

Next, on Geronimo...Tough New Yorker No Nonsense Communication Style!

1.  Corporate Fairy Tale
2.  6 Leadership Lessons
3. Tough New Yorker No Nonsense Style

Waiting eagerly for your comments and reactions!

SPM Profiling Tool: Innovative, Cross-cultural and 21st century ready.

The idea of making a series on 12 women speakers, one each month in 2010, came from my experience of coaching hundreds of executive women and men, providing in depth constructive and personal feedback with a model called the SPM.

• What is the SPM?

Spony Profiling Model is an international profiling tool for individuals, teams and organisations.

SPM reveals motivations, preferences and flexibility, all valuable insights for modern executives. SPM highlights areas of tension; key challenges and opportunities for development, with individual advice for adaptation to different international environments.  This is achieved by measuring individuals’ work values and how others see them at work, manifesting their values through their management style

• What is the research and academic background behing the SPM?

SPM combines & extends Hofstede’s work on cultures with Schwartz's work on values systems.

• Who developed the SPM?

Dr. Gilles Spony  researched SPM at Cranfield School of Management,  winning First Prize for the best Doctoral Thesis presented in Europe in 2001, from the European Association of Personnel Management. 

"Forecasting the boom of current issues in cross-cultural mergers and acquisitions and the management of cross-cultural teams, Gilles’ has developed an analytical model aimed at analysing the impact of personality and cultural differences on managers’ decision-making style within the modern work context. His model represents a truly innovative step to adapt traditional personality profiling to the modern context of internationalisation and globalisation."

Nathalie Turner Founder of Entheo
 

• What are the twelve SPM styles?

Each style is always seen as half of a pair of dilemnas : two styles that are both good, yet opposite styles of management. I will share thumbnail sketches for each style, as I illustrate them each month.  

About the Persuader Style, read Meg Whitman The Laser Light with a Big Smile (January)

Although Meg Whitman display mostly characteristics from the persuader style, she demonstrates sensitivity, friendliness and empathy with others. She 's "stretching" on the relationship dilemna of the Persuader- Moderator.This flexibility makes her a brilliant communicator.

About the Pioneer Style, read Play like a Man, Win like a Woman, with Gail Evans (February)

This post provoked some polemic,(read the comments!) maybe because I stressed the Pioneer dimension of Gail Evans, at the expense of the opposite style: the Maintainer, that I will develop further, with an original example.

About the Achiever Style,opposed to the Facilitator, watch out for my next post,... with Ursula Burns (March)

                                                                                                                                                                             

• What can you learn, thanks to the SPM?

Understanding your styles and how others see you at work means you can make conscious or deliberate choices about the way you manage, with particular outcomes in mind.  You can find a way to focus on creating good working relationships, even with those whose styles you do not like, which often leads to diversity becoming a positive aspect within your workplace. 

 

• What about cultural differences?

When working across different cultures, SPM is particularly good at showing people where they need to pay attention to their styles, to ensure the best possible outcomes. SPM is still unique in being able to offer individual insight at the cultural level with a an Individualised Cultural Map.

 

• How can you take the SPM?

Contact Future to Be. Future to Be is a pioneer in the impact that culture has on individual value systems and how this impacts ways of working.

www.futuretobe.net

Accessed online, with online results instantly available, this tool is also statistically proven to offer valid colleague observation with just three responders.  It is easily described as efficient and insightful. With detailed written reports, for individuals, teams and organizations, SPM is perfectly integrative and 21^st  century ready.

 

• Who does it apply for?

Utilizing the same base axes for individual, team and organizational profiling, SPM provides a common foundation for integrated development for organizations, teams and individuals. A rigorous consultant qualifying programme means that the standards are carefully controlled.  

• What's the Philosophy?

 "We believe that there is much more power in learning to accept and leverage different styles, personalities, skills and backgrounds."

Looking at successful women leaders more closely, I realized that they displayed characteristics similar to aspects of the SPM styles.  Although they have not yet taken the SPM Questionnaire, it is possible to see that some elements are clearly displayed.  By thinking of their styles in terms of SPM, it is possible to understand one’s own styles and undertake development to enhance management styles for more successful outcomes.  Adopting styles of those who are successful is a good way to realize success for yourself. 

 

It has been my privilege to work with senior executives women, and men using SPM and I am convinced that this sophisticated tool is a solid foundation for development activity.  As is already evident, this approach has provoked comment and debate and hopefully will lead on to improved leadership development and greater diversity at the workplace.

 

Below are a number of case studies that illustrate how the SPM can be applied and the effect that it can have in a variety of different environments:

• Outplacement, Personal Coaching & International Management Development
• Working with Teams
• Aligning HR and Corporate Strategy
• Designing objective Roles and Job Descriptions
• Addressing Cultural Issues in the work place
• Financial Times Article 16.12.04 - "Job tests begin to score highly" (21KB PDF)
• Expatica Article - 12.04 - "Virtual culture trainer?" (48KB PDF)

 

Women Power and Sex in The Media

Here is the Front Page of a French Magazine, March 2010. I found it last Thursday, as I was waiting for a business meeting, at the hotel lounge.

What attracted me was the title "Femmes lyonnaises : celles qui prennent le pouvoir!"

Women in Lyon : women in charge ( literally women who take the Power!) Also the Top 50 most influential women...

Ok, why not, I was curious and took the magazine while waiting for my appointment.

Two remarks:

• The picture is a very sexy woman's  naked back, with a dress you would only wear on Oscar ceremony or festival de Cannes. What does it have to do with women leaders and women 's influence? I guess a man must have designed this front page, for other men...

•  Second remark: the little header before the big headline Les Hommes vont en baver! Now, that's really shocking. It means " men are going to suffer" (literally :men are going to drool) The content of the magazine reflected the cover, not worth mentioning here. On this women's month, I wanted to blog about the distorted representation of women and power in the media. 

Waiting for your comments!

Ursula Burns Speaks : On Leadership

What Ursula Burns learned from Anne Mulcahy

• It's all about Every Body Else

• It's about being associated with greatness, it's not about being great!

• You have to keep an eye on what's important here, then everything else will kind of fold into place.

It makes me smile, because it's almost word for word what her mother told her :

  “You have to be good people. And you have to be successful. You have to give more than you take away from the world.’ ”

"  You have to perform at your best. You have to worry about the things you can control. "

Smoothest Transition from Mulcahy to Burns: Sisterhood at The Workplace?