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Are You Empowered in Your Career? 12 Strategies to Gain Strength, Confidence, and Clarity
Professional women have made tremendous strides in terms of drawing on our strengths, abilities, and confidence in the workplace in recent years, but it’s clear that we have a long way to go before we are using our female power with self-assurance and ease.Professional women have made tremendous strides in terms of drawing on our strengths, abilities, and confidence in the workplace in recent years, but it’s clear that we have a long way to go before we are using our female power with self-assurance and ease.
Breakdown Breakthrough
Overcoming the 12 hidden crises of working women Are you a professional woman longing for a radical change? You are not alone. According to my research—a yearlong national study in partnership with the Esteemed Woman Foundation—seven out of 10 women today, particularly those in their middle years, say they are facing a major turning point in their professional lives. After devoting years to building successful careers, they feel that their professional lives and identities no longer work. As a result, most are facing at least one of 12 hidden work-life crises, including chronic health problems, financial bondage, and painful losses of the “real me.”
Breaking Down - It makes breakthrough possible.
ARE YOU A PROFESSIONAL A woman longing for a change? You're not alone. Seven out of 10 women today are facing a major turning point. After devoting years to building successful careers, they feel that their lives and identities no longer work. As a result, most are facing at least one of 12 hidden work-life crises, including chronic health problems, financial bondage, and painful losses of the "real me."

When 60 Minutes Calls - How to handle the media during a customer service crisis
There are times when being a manager can make you a media target. The larger your organization, the greater the odds of something embarrassing happening that ends up for the world to see on YouTube. Over and over. It could be a spill that causes environmental damage, a defective product that needs recalling, or an employee videotaped sleeping-on-the-job. If you are that manager being asked by a reporter to comment, here are a few tips to ensure that your company’s brand and your personal reputation withstand the barrage.
Lesson #5: “It's who you are as an organization that makes everything possible.”
If it is who you are as an organization that makes everything possible, then it is who you are as a leader that makes the organization what it is. Wrigley Jr.’s organization was a strong one because he was an even stronger leader. It was several of his key personal characteristics that made the organization reach the heights it did under his leadership.

You Have No Frame of Reference Here, Donny
I pity taxpayers wandering into the credit crisis story at this point. It is absurdly complex, and centers on a subject that most people neither care about nor understand. And the last time they looked in they were told this was about subprime and housing, which it no longer is -- at least not in large part.
Can thought leadership survive without online?
The traditional way we communicate with our stakeholders has changed. It is no longer about communicating to them but rather with them with. Online and social media play a major role in this and it is a role that has serious implications for becoming a thought leader.
WUSME: Towards a new strategy for crises prevention and to create more SMEs and jobs
Many of the achievements in recent years made to facilitate business of SMEs in the world, to reduce poverty in less privileged economies have seriously been jeopardised by shrinking demand for SMEs export products, increasing prices for energy and food, falling commodity prices, significant reductions in foreign investment and a general liquidity shortage. The strong interdependence among the worlds’ economies made this a literally global economic crisis and human tragedy.

The Social Value of Business
Not so long ago the idea that business should have a social value was seen an anathema.
Should You Start a Retail Business, Stay with Retail Management or Look at a Star Business Online?
Retail management? Start a retail business? What about the current economic conditions? What other alternatives are viable? In this article I offer my solution to some of the problems facing people who are part of a sector that has suffered greatly in the last couple of years.

Building Your Emotional "Fallout Shelter"
There's only one simple (but not easy) approach that we can take that will shelter us from these emotional flash-backs from midlife trauma: beware of free-floating emotions! By that I mean that we can actually train ourselves to spot emotions that come out of nowhere and that seem . . . well . . . just wrong.

Getting Your Article Published
Here are tips and guidelines on getting your article published.
Lesson from the Plumber and the Dentist
More often than not, the anxieties of our clients and customers are what drive them to want and pay us.
What Do You Do When You Get Up in the Morning?
As entrepreneurs who can't "hold down" a nine-to-five job, we often get questions from friends and family who wonder what we do when we get up in the morning.
Don't Expect Gratitude from All Customers
For customers who pay you and even love who you do for them, you want to stay with them for as long as you run your business. But, for other customers who treat you as their interim "Fire Department," just do your work and let go. You'd be a happier person, not merely a successful one.
Leadership Strategy - Lead The Way With Your Talents
Today, change is showing up globally like a volcano that has been merely spewing smoke and now has erupted. The signs were there. The “too good to be true” mortgages with little or no down payment; credit card accessibility used with promises that the user would pay them off in the future, yet the debt just kept mounting to outlandish proportions; trying to have it all by working harder and longer with little time left over to develop relationships and self care. With all the stress internally and externally it was inevitable for the bubble to burst.

Jim Collins Fortune Interview Translated for the Sales Force
Jim Collins was interviewed in the February 2 issue of Fortune. He was asked this question: "Right now, it seems as if people are panicking - or are paralyzed about decisions."
Are You Crisis-Minded or Opportunity-Minded
Today, the economic boom has gone. What’s your attitude? Are you thinking “doom and gloom”? Or are you thinking “hidden opportunity”? I believe our attitude and thoughts are a bigger problem than the external economy. An African proverb states it well: “It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your mind.”

New Year, New Start, New Job
Everyday throughout the world there are thousands of individuals who are being interviewed for their next, maybe first, maybe last, but definitely new job. And in today’s credit crises world, there are often hundreds and hundreds of individuals going for the same role. On top of that, every day there are fewer and fewer vacancies on offer.
Don’t Just Survive…Thrive!: Tips for Financial Success in Tough Economic Times
Believe it or not, it is possible not only to survive, but to thrive in tougher economic markets. And guess what...if you learn how to profit even in “down” markets, than think how well you will flourish when things inevitably get better again. Learn from the pros and the families that have withstood generations of ups and downs in the economy.
Recession Power: How Great Companies Rise to the Top, Even in Down Times
Are you tired of hearing all the "doom and gloom" forecasts regarding our current economy? Do you find yourself obsessing with worry and fear about the potential impact on your business? Are you ready to shift from victim mentality and knee-jerk reactions to opportunistic thinking and proactive strategies to profit even in recessionary times? Even during the great depression, huge fortunes were made by many. The Kennedy, Rothschild and Rockefeller families all dramatically increased their fortunes throughout the depression. In every recession since then, many companies have not only survived but risen to the top despite the economic times. Read this article and learn what separated these companies and what you need to do to thrive in this uncertain economy.
Time Management
The most valuable resource we have, is time and sales people more than anyone know how challenging it can be to cram everything that needs to be done into their available time. According to Stephen R. Covey, author of ‘First Things First’ we should focus on our high priority tasks, those that provide the biggest levers towards achieving our goals. That’s why, being clear on what you want to accomplish in every facet of your life will determine the importance and therefore the priority of everything you need to do.

How Deep Will Your Midlife Crisis Go?
Of all the difficulties that a person can face during the course of a lifetime, the midlife crisis is perhaps the worst. That's because its source runs so deep.
How Should I Grow My Business? By Avoiding Overwork
It’s surprisingly easy to work too much when you run your own business because there is certainly always something that needs to be done. There always will be. With so much virtual working, BlackBerries, laptops and other technology that allows us to work from anywhere, it’s easy to do so. But you mustn’t. Here's how to avoid overwork...
Time, Money and Life Balance, Part 1
Highly successful people seem to be less busy than most every one else because they arrange it that way. They join fewer clubs, make fewer promises, run fewer errands and waste less of life's most precious commodity.
Think Your Way to The Top!
Invest in your education, but just importantly, create opportunities to USE what you know in fresh and creative ways. Expand the boundaries and stretch the possibilities!
Are You Empowered at Work?
12 Steps for Professional Women to Gain Strength, Power, and Confidence at Work
Breakdown Breakthrough: Overcoming the 12 Common Professional Crises Working Women Face
Thousands of professional women today are discovering a startling and deeply disturbing truth – that their professional lives are no longer working. Often this realization hits a woman smack between the eyes in midlife, and is experienced as a full-blown crisis. In fact, there are 12 common crises professional women are facing today, all sharing one common theme – disempowerment — the inability to advocate effectively for oneself or move forward in positive, self-affirming and productive ways. Read about new research findings on professional women today which helps women address, and successfully overcome, these personal and professional challenges.
Important "Lessons Learned” For Leaders, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
One strategic action that I encourage all my clients to take is to look at any undesired or unplanned outcome of their efforts with a keen eye and a mindset toward identifying the “lessons learned” from the experience. The strongest and most effective leaders have the ability to commit to identifying and acting upon those “lessons learned.” And I believe leaders take a totally different view of failures that are experienced in their businesses and in their personal lives. The following is a quote from Denis Watley that I believe provides a strong confirmation of my belief about failure. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

Crisis Management
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Crisis Leadership Reduces Stress and Improves Performance
Crises and emergencies are taxing to individuals, groups and organizations. Many people are automatically thrown into a fight-or-flight reaction, and others simply become depressed and passive. Either way, the stress on individuals and groups is significant and can be highly debilitating for performance. This article highlights techniques and principles you can use to lead in a crisis.
Plan for Business Success - 6 Reasons to Succession Plan
There are many valuable reasons to plan for the future - not least because it reduces the inexperience when people leave the business or organisation - yet there are other reasons too..
Introduction: Fiscal Dimensions of Sustainable Development
One of the challenges facing the international community is to achieve sustainable development. Sustainable development has three pillars— economic development, social development, and environmental protection.
4.5 Improving the performance of public services and formal sector enterprises: Working Out of Poverty
In many developing countries, pay and conditions in the public services have deteriorated badly over the long years of austerity associated with structural adjustment and the debt crises. This has seriously damaged morale and performance, led to the loss of some of the most talented public servants to the private sector, increased the risk of public servants resorting to “charging” citizens for services by demanding under-the-counter payments, and weakened confidence in the function of government.
4.1 Case studies on export diversification for selected African countries: Economic Report on Africa 2007
So far, diversification trends in relation to African economies indicate that different countries have achieved varying results. The overall conclusion is that, in general, African economies have failed to make gains beyond their initial positions in the early 1980s. It has also been pointed out that they reacted defensively to the crises that beset them in the 1980s. Their macroeconomic stabilization policies did not create an environment conducive for dynamic response, as a good number of countries in Asia and Latin America were able to do. Their defensive response as seen in the oil factor, perpetuated the status quo and worsened it in some instances. Earlier gains in such countries as Gabon, Nigeria and Sudan were eroded.

Other crises Related Articles

Managing Crises Before They Happen
Book Review -- Managing Crises Before They Happen: What Every Executive Needs to Know About Crisis Management – by Ian I. Mitroff, AMACOM, January 2000, 172 pages

“Crisis Management Planning – What’s Happening Where We Work?”
Crises continue to be in our newspaper headlines and the lead stories on radio and television broadcasts. And crises continue to affect businesses in many forms and continue to occur without notice. But what’s happening where we work in response to this continuing trend of crises? Are businesses preparing for crises by developing crisis management plans? Do you know if your company has a crisis management plan or a business disaster recovery plan? Do they have a crisis communication plan? The American Management Association did a survey in August & September 2005 and what that survey revealed is summarized below.

Crisis Management in the 21st Century
Crises may come in many forms: fires, floods, plant disasters, class action lawsuits--and these days, terrorist threats or attacks. A properly-managed enterprise must plan for such contingencies, lest the onset of such a crisis end up in the extinction of the business. Remember--it may not be the crisis itself that results in your extinction--it may be your slowness to respond, or the inappropriateness of your response. This paper looks at the type of planning and resources you need to dedicate to manage crises to best ensure the survival of your business.
Crisis - What Crisis?
In an ideal world, we would never have crises. Yet in the real world we do. Managing crisis is quite a challenge, so here are some thoughts on how to make it work best for you.
The (Aging) Parent Trap
When people think about midlife (and the crises that surround it), they don't always consider their unique relationship with their aging parents. That adds a whole other dimension to the mix!
Get Proactive or Face the Consequences
The key to avoiding a midlife crisis involves looking ahead beyond the immediate crises that sap your energy and attention. Being truly proactive is your only effective way forward.
Breakdown Breakthrough
Overcoming the 12 hidden crises of working women Are you a professional woman longing for a radical change? You are not alone. According to my research—a yearlong national study in partnership with the Esteemed Woman Foundation—seven out of 10 women today, particularly those in their middle years, say they are facing a major turning point in their professional lives. After devoting years to building successful careers, they feel that their professional lives and identities no longer work. As a result, most are facing at least one of 12 hidden work-life crises, including chronic health problems, financial bondage, and painful losses of the “real me.”
"A Word to the Wise"
In view of the recent crises in banking and the financial services industry, what would you say was the top leadership trait? See if you agree with us here.
Coping with Uncertain Times
Hints and tips to help you weather the current economic crises or any unexpected financial downturn.
The 12 Hidden Crises of Entrepreneurial Women
Several years ago I conducted a yearlong research study with over 100 working women across the country about professional crises in women and how we can reclaim our lives to overcome them. I was astounded by the findings, and felt they were so universal and important for women, I wrote a book called Breakdown Breakthrough about these 12 crises, offering a three-step holistic model to break through these challenges once and for all.
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