Vered’s Blog

1st of September is always a day that for me means new beginning. Actually I was looking and realized that actually it’s been a year since this Blog has been on the air. I find it a reason to celebrate.

As a gift for this celebration the US business magazine Forbes announced its yearly list of 100 Powerful Women in the World, and has ranked Angela Merkel Germany’s Chancellor, as the most powerful woman in the world for the 2nd year in a row.

Forbes says Ms Merkel had impressed with her “cool leadership” at the G8 meeting of world leaders and the European Union summit, both of which were held in Germany this summer.
“First she stuck to her principles by getting G8 leaders to agree to significant cuts in carbon emissions. She later corralled European countries into an agreement on a treaty to replace the EU constitution,” the magazine said.

I find this choice an excellent choice. While many women on that list are still demonstrating old ways of power, which are taken from male energy concept of power, and are actually trying to compete harder and better with power and leadership, Angela Merkel shows that there is another way of leadership, power and strength.

She is a strong supporter of the environment and her actions in the last G8 summit reveal it. She announced ambitious carbon emission reduction targets and crowned this achievement by securing a global agreement on carbon emissions. Although her major opponent to it was the US president, she still managed to mend the disastrous relationship with the US she inherited from her predecessor.

Angela Merkel is showing us that feminine power can be shown in a much quieter, soft and simple ways then being aggressive, pushy or dominating.

I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate this Blog’s birthday then this news about women’s power taking another road shown by Angela Merkel and most important being recognized as being powerful.

Have a great day, Vered
Here is the full list:

Forbes Most Powerful Women List - 2007
1 Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Germany
2 Wu Yi, Vice premier, China
3 Ho Ching, Chief executive, Temasek Holdings Singapore
4 Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, U.S.
5 Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo, U.S.
6 Sonia Gandhi, President, Congress Party, India
7 Cynthia Carroll, Chief executive, Anglo American, U.K.
8 Patricia A. Woertz, Chairman, Archer Daniels Midland, U.S.
9 Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods, U.S.
10 Patricia Russo, Chief executive, Alcatel-Lucent, U.S.
11 Michèle Alliot-Marie, Minister for the Interior and overseas territories, France
12 Christine Lagarde, Minister of economy, finance and employment, France
13 Anne M. Mulcahy, Chairman, chief executive, Xerox, U.S.
14 Anne Lauvergeon, Chief executive, Areva, France
15 Mary Sammons, Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid Corp., U.S.
16 Angela Braly, Chief executive, president, WellPoint, U.S.
17 Marjorie Scardino, Chief executive, Pearson PLC, U.K.
18 Wu Xiaoling, Deputy governor, People’s Bank of China, China
19 Brenda Barnes, Chairman, chief executive, Sara Lee Corp., U.S.
20 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme court justice, U.S.
21 Oprah Winfrey, Chairman, Harpo, U.S.
22 Margaret Whitman, Chief executive, president, Ebay, U.S.
23 Queen Elizabeth II, Queen, U.K.
24 Melinda Gates, Cofounder, cochairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S.
25 Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. senator, New York, U.S.