Ah, the holiday season offers so many opportunities to connect! It can be a thorny challenge, however, to negotiate the delicate art of holiday merriment at the office. I asked my favorite, smartest gal-pal experts to offer you their top “Do’s and Dont’s” for social capital-building during the holiday season:
DO continue to network during December. Many people think that no one will want to meet or develop business during the holidays,...
Once upon a time, when managers made implicitly gender-biased judgments about which staff got the pay raises and the promotions, we called a spade a spade: gender discrimination. When Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Betty Dukes et al. was heard by the Supreme Court, we gained a new euphemism for structural sexism in the workplace: “excessive subjectivity.”
This phenomenon is no news to most women: When a company fails to establish objective criteria...
The exercise of power depends upon the exchange of resources between people. We exchange ideas, money, favors, introductions, information, and more. So it stands to reason: In order to obtain the resources you need to accomplish the outcomes you desire, you need people.
At the Power Summit held by the UT Center for Women in Law, Mary Cranston shared her own personal tool for people-mapping. It's so simple, so blunt, so...
