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Articles of Interest - An Overview
High Powered Women in a High Powered Industry - Author Sandra Conrad is a freelance writer living in Dallas. She frequently writes about the software, technology and consulting industries. In her article for Upgrade, she gives us five women in upper management for high-tech companies who provide a female perspective on a male-dominated industry.
International Business Etiquette: Asia - by Tracey Wilen, International Business Development: Cisco Systems. Author of "Doing Business With Japanese Men", "Doing Business With Western Women"(twilen@cisco.com) - A fascinating series of articles from WITI;
Building Great Places To Work by Glenn Bates, principal of Glenn Bates and Associates. As a respected H.R. professional, she works with organisations to clarify future direction, desired values and culture. HRMonthly article of the month.
Scenarios and The Art of the Long View will hold particular interest for the executive woman whose vision exceeds her grasp.
Who Am We? - by Sherry Turkle. There are many Sherry Turkles. There is the one who studied poststructuralism in Paris
in the 1960s. There is Turkle the social scientist, trained in anthropology, personality psychology, and sociology. There is Dr. Turkle, the clinical psychologist, author of - Psychoanalytic Politics (Basic Books, 1978) and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Simon & Schuster, 1984). There is also Sherry the professor, who has mentored MIT students for nearly 20 years. And there is the cyberspace explorer, the woman who might log on as a man, or as another woman, or as, simply, ST. She has written an extraordinary article which suggests that we are moving from modernist calculation toward postmodernist simulation,
where the self is a multiple, distributed system. Courtesy: Wired About the author.
Heroines! Entrepreneurs We Love - Bobbi Brown, 39, creator/CEO, Bobbi Brown Essentials,
revenues estimated at $20 million, and Mary Engelbreit, 44, artist, president, Mary Engelbreit Studios,
$88 million in retail sales. Courtesy: NAFE.
"Women: Natural Leaders, Unnatural Role", The remarks of Dr. Anne Peterson, former Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation at the Association of Women In Science, Seminar on Leadership, presented at Georgetown University. Text newly made available. (note: Dr. Petersen left NSF in the fall of 1996 to accept the position of Senior Vice President for Programs at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation).
Multi-talented Linda Ellerbee, Journalist, Author, and owner of Lucky Duck Productions, a TV production company, has written
"Picasso, E-Mail and Me", a humorous essay on having gone head-to-head with technology and finally deciding to call it a truce. Or not.
Cynthia Gurin is President of The Summerland Group, Inc.,
whose home-office furnishings product The OFFICE™, was just awarded Grand Prize at NeoCon,
the World's Trade Fair for Interior Design, Facilities Management & Communications.
Cynthia is also the author of a number of children's stories. Her article,
Assume The
[Leadership] Position" provides a humorous look at why the
differences between men and women in business may be a little
more pronounced than we first realized.
Ruth Ploskunyak
has enjoyed a twenty year career in sales of high-ticket, high-technology goods and
services to commercial and defense contractors, and has a background in
the telecommunications and nuclear power industries.
Now a partner in Healthwise Associates, international distributors in
health-related products, personal care
and nutrition, and business services, she also serves as an
advisory member of the Board for the National
Association of Female Executives. Ruth's article
"Plugging In For Profit"
offers sound advice when it comes to using the Internet to promote your
business.
Kathleen R. Allen, Associate Professor
of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California, is a co-founder of
Gentech Corp., a high-tech start-up in Fresno, California; and the author of
Launching New Ventures (Upstart Publishing Co. 1995).
Kathleen's article, "What Do
Women Want?", suggests that when it comes to building
world-class, high-growth companies, men and women aren't so different.
Card Blanche, by Wendy Reid Crisp,
national director of NAFE and author of the best-selling "100 Things I'm Not Going to Do
Now That I'm Over 50" (Perigee Books), is an amusing reflection on the myriad
of information we try to cram on our business cards, and a very interesting
alternative.
Skills Transfer -
by Marilyn Moats Kennedy, is an article which appears courtesy of the National
Association for Female Executives. Marilyn is managing
partner of Career Strategies, a Wilmette, Illinois-based career consulting firm. This article was
adapted with permission from her newsletter Kennedy's Career Strategist. Her article provides
valuable insight to what mid-career people do when they find
themselves in a dying industry and how younger workers choose
careers when even the brightest among them sees no long-term
future in a particular industry.
Brain-Tennis -
Debate as a spectator sport--From Wired Magazine. Title: Women and the Sexed Machine. Are women underrepresented in
technology fields solely because of gender-biased cultural forces, or because
the existing technology itself is male-centric? If the latter, what would female
digital technology look like - and would its existence widen the gender and technology gap
even further? Pamela McCorduck - who began her recent book The Futures of
Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century when, as a member of the Global Business Network,
she co-chaired their meeting on the future of women in 1993
- says maybe, but women do need technology made by women for women. Karen Coyle - a
librarian and chair of the Berkeley, California, chapter of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility - says, "there is nothing inherently masculine about computers,"
and that both men and women need to get over the marketing dogma surrounding technology.
She recently wrote "How Hard Can It Be?" on the "macho myth" in computer culture for
the book wired_women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace.
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