Archive for the 'Influential Women' Category

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 […]

Joan Ganz Cooney – Visionary Leadership

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Television today has become a drug for most adults and children. They say that the average kid in US watches more than 6 hours a day TV, here in Holland it is estimated as 4-5 hours. In both cases it is obvious that when our mind is exposed to so many hours of mass information, […]

Indira Gandhi – Powerful or Ethical Leadership?

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Not all women are great examples of Feminine leadership. Being a woman does not automatically mean that you act upon the principles of Feminine Leadership.
Indira Gandhi, is maybe, one of the best-known women of the 20th century. However, Indira is one of the best examples that powerful leadership is not necessarily Feminine Leadership even when […]

Eleanor Roosevelt - Giving as a Leadership Quality

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

November 7 is Election Day in United States. Even though I’m not an American this senate election is exciting to me. If the Democratic Party will win, as the poles predict, for the first time in history the head of the biggest party in the senate will be a woman (Nancy Pelosi - House Democratic […]

Anita Roddick - A Transformational Leader

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

I got a lot of responds to my last post. Women were asking me how come I am speaking in one breath about Feminine Leadership and mentioning Al Gore as a good example of Feminine Leadership?
The answer is very simple – Feminine Leadership is not about man or woman. It’s about cherishing and putting forward […]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The Quality of Free Thinking

Friday, October 20th, 2006

October 26 should be marked on all women’s calendar as an important date to remember.
On October 26 1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton passed away from this world. You might not have heard about her, but most women in the western world and especially in the United States are enjoying the freedom and respect due to this […]