Issue 184 — November 15, 2021
The Microsoft Work Trend Index says over 40% of the global workforce is considering leaving their current employer, and 46% plan to make a significant career pivot.
This and other recent studies have pundits and business leaders wringing their hands about the difficulty of filling jobs in the wake of the pandemic’s massive economic disruption.
Read MoreIssue 183 — November 8, 2021
Don’t you love the day each year that we get an extra hour?
Well, maybe not so much if you have small children whose body clocks still awaken them and their parents, at what will now be one hour earlier than before.
And maybe you’d prefer to keep daylight saving time all year to stave off darkness in the late afternoon, thus reducing seasonal affective disorders while avoiding the complications of a mid-year time change.
Read MoreIssue 182 — October 25, 2021
The buzz is everywhere now. Are you in the office yet? As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with the Shecession and the Great Resignation, now comes the Great Returnship.
And since women have lost or left more jobs than men and have been slower to return, special emphasis must be placed on Take The Lead’s goal to #putwomenatthecenter of the recovery. There are so many questions.
Is your workplace ready? Does your boss want you to come back to work in person but you aren’t so sure you are ready? Are you anxious about getting back among larger groups of people?
Read MoreIssue 181 — October 18, 2021
Dear Reader,
It made me as happy as a pumpkin spice cupcake to see this sign on the carousel in Central Park when I walked by it this week…
Read MoreIssue 1789— September 27, 2021
[Special Note: Today 9/28/21, my new book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good is formally birthed into the world. It is incumbent upon me as the author to ask you to buy it, review it, and share it on social media. And seriously, despite the cheesiness I feel making that ask, I do want this book to reach thousands or millions of women like you to help you embrace your power, elevate your intentions, and use the tips and tools in this book to get the lives and careers of your dreams. And what I know is that if you don’t ask, you don’t get. OK? OK! Thank you for your support.]
Read More“As soon as we can talk about power as a hammer—you can break something with it or you can build something with it— we turn power into a generative, innovative, creative positive idea as the power to,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead at her live and virtual book launch for her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good.
Read MoreIssue 178 — September 20, 2021
On a spectacular Arizona day in late January, 2020, a day when you can be lulled into thinking all’s right with the world, I was hiking with a friend. Then boom! I tripped on an unseen pebble, put my hand out to catch myself and knew immediately from the snap and the pain that I had broken my wrist. The first broken bone I’d ever had.
It’s never the mountains that trip you up. It’s the pebbles on the path.
Read MoreIssue 177 — September 12, 2021
Like most everyone else yesterday on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I relived where I was that day when everything changed.
It was one of those spectacularly beautiful days when it seemed like all was right with the world. I had arrived a little after 8:30am to meet a business colleague for breakfast at Jean-Georges Nougatine, an upscale restaurant just off New York’s Columbus Circle in the Trump International Hotel and Tower. (Ironic? Perhaps.)
Read MoreIssue 176 — August 30, 2021
If you want to see me break out into a cold sweat instantly, just say the word “event.” Every time an organization with which I’m involved has an event, my first reaction is “No.”
Not surprisingly, since I’ve been leading nonprofit organizations almost my entire career, and thus on the asking end of the fundraising equation, that probability of cold sweat occurs with some frequency.
Read MoreIssue 175 — August 23, 2021
I had so much fun interviewing pianist Marina Arsenijevic in preparation for Take The Lead’s Women’s Equality Day concert.
She talked about how, soon after she arrived in the United States, she told a group of families who like herself had immigrated from Serbia, one of seven countries that war torn Yugoslavia had split into that her dream was to play in Carnegie Hall.
Read MoreIssue 173 — July 26, 2021
Two billionaires went into space last week and created a big dust up here on Earth. The debates over whether Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos did something amazing or disgusting raged on social media.
Read MoreIssue 172 — July 12, 2021
Last week, I attended my first unmasked, in person, un-social distanced theatrical performance, albeit outdoors. It was pure bliss.
The play was, of course, the thing, and an entertaining one at that. But being in a community of happy theater goers was by far the essence of my joy.
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