tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:33:11 +0000women entrepreneurswomenentrepreneurswomen's issuesentrepreneurshipinnovationmulti-taskingwomen in businesscultureeconomy planet creativityentrepreneurfailurefocusperfectionismFacebook culture leadership entrepreuership womenbrainbusinessconsumerdesigndistractionemotional intelligencefamilyfinancial crisisfundinggovernmentgroupsimplementationintelligenceintuitionmotherhoodmothersnetworkingorganizational changepsychologyscalingscaling new productsshiftsmart girlssolopreneursuccesssustainabilityteamstraitventuresweavingInsights on the winning ways of women entrepreneurs and business leaders.http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jean - Smart Girls Way)Blogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-4001087183870878999Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:21:00 +00002011-03-27T12:38:47.867-07:00entrepreneurentrepreneursentrepreneurshipfailurewomen's issuesThis year I take encouragement from the fact that there were more women attending SxSW as leaders in the music, gaming and entertainment industry than ever before. I especially enjoyed the reports coming out of the workshop entitled: Breaking the Glass Ceiling -- Fearless Women Entrepreneurs. According to the event coverage from The Guardian, the event outcome hit upon a key principle that we http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2011/03/loooking-for-few-good-women.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tracey - SmartGirls Way)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-4300981007478183404Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:08:00 +00002011-02-18T10:08:10.949-08:00On Sunday, I attended a fabulous small event organized by Libba Pinchot—the heart and soul of The Bainbridge Graduate Institute; where innovation and ethics meet in the original sustainable MBA program.  The event was unique not only because of the range and breadth of experience of the eight amazing women, including author and inspirationist Sally Helegesen, the incredible food and amazing http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2011/02/first-take-deep-breath-four-ways-women.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jean - Smart Girls Way)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-3065578923378651308Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:38:00 +00002011-02-11T07:58:13.231-08:00culturewomen entrepreneurswomen in businessOver the past week, several sources on my radar shed light on the ongoing debate behind the corporate glass ceiling. Collectively I believe they punctuate the reasons behind why I – and perhaps 10 Million other women in the US – have chosen to shed corporate confines in favor of the freedoms, risks and rewards of entrepreneurship:Bias is a natural behavior: Serial CEO Margaret Heffernan explains http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2011/02/five-reasons-women-choose.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-43628811202639153Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:53:00 +00002011-02-11T07:29:06.807-08:00Today the seemingly unrelated news of White House Climate Czar, Carol Browner’s departure and the new gender quota at Davos  started me thinking about parity in leadership. One of our primary objectives at The SmartGirls Way is to help women contribute to the new economy by building sustainable businesses. By this we mean a business that a woman can lead with http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2011/01/who-will-buy-us-seat-at-table.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jean - Smart Girls Way)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-4187380197864082704Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:30:00 +00002011-02-01T09:57:43.575-08:00distractionentrepreneurshipfocusmotherhoodmothersmulti-taskingperfectionismsuccessventureswomenby Tracey Collins Source For decades women have learned to divide their focus between the twin demands of career and caretaker.  The National Center for Policy Analysis estimates that 70% of today’s home-based businesses are run by women and a recent US Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) report put out the by US Department of Commerce attributes “work-life” balance as a key http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/11/multi-tasking-and-motherhood-penalty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-2092978867445649976Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:44:00 +00002010-12-27T08:51:03.885-08:00Facebook culture leadership entrepreuership womenby Jean Brittingham I was very pleased to see Ms. Sandberg, COO of Facebook suggest some solutions for the mistakes that we women make in making our way in the work world. And even more pleased to hear her acknowledge the significant issue of dualism in our society as it relates to the interpretation of strong men and strong women. We (and in most studies and instances this includes women) are http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/12/whats-so-great-about-facebooks-sheryl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-8964577604524462233Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:37:00 +00002010-12-20T15:37:33.680-08:00consumereconomy planet creativityfamilyinnovationshiftsustainabilitytraitwomenby Jean Brittingham Over the past few years, there has been a ‘quickening’ in the world of women as it relates to the health and future of our planet. This awakening has fuelled the emergence of grassroots communities as well as the significant increase in entrepreneurial activity among women that we at SmartGirls are so very excited about. It has also created a significant body of research http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/12/if-you-want-to-design-consumer-shift.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-7755488136153117323Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:34:00 +00002010-11-22T08:34:17.969-08:00designentrepreneurshipfailureinnovationperfectionismwomen entrepreneursby Jean Brittingham Source One of the biggest challenges out there for entrepreneurs is this idea that you have to get things right before you launch and that if you make mistakes, it will cost you big time.  If there is one thing I have learned over the years it’s that delay in getting your idea to market is not always good. That’s not to say you don’t have to have a plan, and a plan ofhttp://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/11/business-design-is-contact-sport.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-1213391798400479715Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:02:00 +00002010-11-18T14:02:56.026-08:00brainfocusmulti-taskingwomenby Tracey Collins Source When it comes to splitting one’s focus on many different activities, women are better than men at more accurately and efficiently completing the important tasks. So are women better able to focus on multiple tasks because of evolutionary practice and social expectations, or is it because of the way a woman’s brain is hardwired? Here at The SmartGirls Way we’ve been http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/11/women-do-focus-differently.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-2588961103133356286Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:30:00 +00002010-11-17T09:30:13.960-08:00entrepreneurfinancial crisisfundinggovernmentwomenBy Tracey Collins Something in Jean’s last post on Pride, Power and Prejudice really struck a chord with me: Men are three times more likely to receive a new business loan than women for the same business plan? Wow!   After being at once discouraged and then curious, I wanted to find out: What is actually being done about this?  If more women were involved in the decision-making boards http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/11/women-entrepreneurs-world-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-1440422012580539044Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:59:00 +00002010-11-15T13:59:34.039-08:00networkingweavingby Jean Brittingham  Last Tuesday, The Glass Hammer hosted an event on career management. The primary focus of the event was negotiating and networking—a skill that women entrepreneurs seem to have a stronger handle on than women in corporate settings. Through my personal experience and interviews with women in corporate and entrepreneurial settings, the primary difference that sets women http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-weaving-trumps-networking-for-women.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-6538287510795518207Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:45:00 +00002010-11-09T10:45:52.088-08:00culturewomen entrepreneursby Jean Brittingham The Dilemma As our research continues and our insight into women’s unique strengths in family, society and business deepens, I have become fonder of what I am calling in-born AND learned theory. Many scientific fields have studied the question of nature v. nurture attempting to answer it from a hypothesis of one ideology dominating the other. While typical of our current http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/11/pride-power-prejudice-and-woman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-1200546044398067828Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:00:00 +00002010-11-08T08:52:45.619-08:00organizational changeby Tracey Collins Recently I've come to observe an interesting dichotomy between those that succeed and those that fail at change.  I'd like to call it the male vs. the female approach.  I was reminded of this as I watched last week’s midterm election – an election that was, once again, very much about “change.” With the downfall of Pelosi, Whitman and Fiorina the buzz out there http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/11/female-approach-to-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-187079891575490874Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:57:00 +00002010-11-03T16:21:30.078-07:00intuitionpsychologyby Jean Brittingham In a discussion this morning with a senior executive in a large architectural and engineering firm (which by itself is something to say—women at the “real” executive or board level are still rare in the ranks of these consulting companies), I mentioned that intuition is one of the core attributes that we are looking at in women entrepreneurs.  She laughed and said, it http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-laughing-matter-why-you-should-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-6728606447004183193Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:00:00 +00002010-10-29T15:00:19.011-07:00by Nina Carduner It has been well-documented that retaining and promoting female talent into top-level executive management has been a serious challenge for American companies and corporations. Women comprise about 50% of the American workforce and yet, of all the chief executives in the top 500 us companies (in 2009), only 3% were women. This gender imbalance has been explained primarily by http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/10/retaining-female-leadership-myths-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-8618318849232131512Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:28:00 +00002010-10-26T11:28:32.009-07:00economy planet creativityby Jean Brittingham I’ve been a little sluggish in my blogs recently because I’ve been working on the book! It’s very exciting to see it coming together. In the book we discuss the characteristics, strengths and success stories of women entrepreneurs and the critical role that women will play in the Next Economy. Today I thought I’d share my thoughts about this new economy as I see it evolving. http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/10/4-trends-that-will-drive-next-economy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-7941109533451777566Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:43:00 +00002010-10-18T08:47:56.097-07:00entrepreneurssolopreneurwomen entrepreneurswomen in businesswomen's issuesby Jean Brittingham I didn’t even know where to start when my new-media maven asked me to respond to this post by Penelope Trunk.  I get the power of a hyperbolic title, but really? Women Don’t Want to Run Start-Ups Because They’d Rather Have Children? There’s so much wrong here it’s hard to set your sights. At the same time I completely feel for her. And before I say anything else, http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/10/angry-exhausted-frustrated-and-wrong.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-2423967921474241639Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:45:00 +00002010-10-07T08:15:56.519-07:00businessemotional intelligencegroupsintelligenceteamswomen entrepreneurswomen's issuesby Jean Brittingham A recent study on group IQ confirms what we at the SmartGirl’s Way have long known—that women have rocking relationship skills.  The study shows that the ability of a group to solve a difficult problem was directly related to the number of women in the group--essentially the number of women increases the collective cognitive abilities of the group. Women are natural http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/10/emotional-intelligence-and-impact-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-3473833910339749764Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:40:00 +00002010-10-06T17:24:20.308-07:00entrepreneursimplementationinnovationscalingscaling new productswomen entrepreneursby Jean Brittingham I keep running into articles about how important it is that innovation be scalable. I just want to say, “duh.” It really seems too obvious to write about. And yet, too often it is overlooked in the thrill of innovation—and maybe even more so in young entrepreneurial organizations. Worse yet, there hasn't been a lot written about how to test in advance if your "baby" will http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/06/scalable-is-big.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jean - Smart Girls Way)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-1954792559245799316Tue, 25 May 2010 18:05:00 +00002010-11-08T14:52:23.482-08:00multi-taskingby Jean Brittingham There is a lot of chatter about how multi-tasking is a bad thing. This discussion has arisen from the incredible surge in technology that has enabled us to connect with vast amounts of information at every minute of the day. The amount and diversity of information that flows into our daily lives is unprecedented to the point that people are http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/05/upside-and-downside-of-our-great.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jean - Smart Girls Way)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958288075406643646.post-5335148580612466889Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:15:00 +00002010-10-06T14:07:34.039-07:00entrepreneurssmart girlswomenwomen entrepreneurswomen in businesswomen's issuesIt's interesting how consistently I am hearing from women who are perplexed that after 100 or more years of active effort to achieve equity in pay, opportunity and representation, we are still pushing a very heavy stone up a very steep hill. And further, we're pretty tired of hearing that things are all good. Here's the issue from my perspective. While there may be a few men out there who http://smartgirlsway.blogspot.com/2010/04/women-entrepreneurs-new-equal-rights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jean - Smart Girls Way)0