Archive for the 'Influential Women' Category

Women in Politics - Are We There Yet?

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Women in politics are starting to become more visible and we start to hear more about them. However, the question whether Feminine Leadership is being expresses by those leaders is still a question that has to be answered.
While the race to the White House is becoming hotter and the chances that there will be a […]

Mother Teresa - Angel of Mercy

Monday, August 27th, 2007

One woman’s name stands above all as a symbol of compassion and service leadership and she is Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa embodies and symbolizes many of the Feminine Leadership values – compassion, service, devotion, humbleness, nurturing and most important – love.
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, in the former Yugoslavia, […]

Leadership Skills - Becoming Someone…

Monday, August 20th, 2007

I was looking for something uplifting to start the week with. I was looking for something wise to say that would strengthen my leadership skills. I was searching for that special leadership skill that would allow me to begin this week feeling strong and confidant.
You see, for me the summer vacation has finished. Thom is […]

Coco Chanel - Feminist or Feminine?

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Coco Chanel was shrewd, chic and on the cutting edge. The clothes she created changed the way women looked and how they looked at themselves.
Chanel would not have defined herself as a feminist — in fact, she consistently spoke of femininity rather than of feminism — yet her work is unquestionably part of the liberation […]

Katharine Graham – Powerful Leadership

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Most of us tend to think that in order to become powerful we need to be born that way, or have certain charisma to attain it. However, Katharine Graham shows that the only difference between powerful people and not is whether they express their power or not. Katharine Graham is a great model for showing […]

Florence Nightingale - Courage to Follow Your Heart

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I had to go today to the hospital for a routine checkup. As I was sitting there waiting, I was watching the nurses and wondered how would the world function without the support and help of this profession.
We tend to take things for granted. We don’t realize that only 150 years ago profession such as […]

Han Myung-sook - Changing Leadership Values

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

The other day I was working with my daughter on her school paper that she needed to hand in. She chose to write about China. We were talking about the different dynasties that China had during history and she asked me: “what is a dynasty?”
When I explained it to her she was astonished to learn […]

Oprah Winfrey - Servant Leadership

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Ask any person in the western hemisphere, and even beyond, to give you a list of the 5 most influential women of today and one name will always appear there – Oprah Winfrey. Oprah has become a second name for successful woman.
In September 2006 I conducted a survey with the Dutch women’s magazine Sante which […]

Simone de Beauvoir - Changing Relationships Concepts

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

I am not a feminist, I’ve never been. Actually in my early years I used to have a lot of arguments with my sister, who was a feminist, that the whole concept of feminism IS the cause of split between man and women and that it harms women more than support them.
Today I will not […]

Grace Hopper – Leadership Quality of Excellence

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Can you imagine a world without computers today? Can you imagine doing the simplest jobs that we take for granted without computers? However, how old do you think computers are?
Have you noticed how the science of computers keeps on coming every year with more and more new developments? Today computers are the science that keeps […]