Evolutionary Leadership: Darwin’s Remarkable Women
If the goal of nations, communities, and corporations is to help solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world today one solution is staring us in the face. Women. Just invite more women into leadership & the decision-making table. Why? The FEMALE brain is hardwired with 10 natural leadership traits. And these 10 special traits hardwired by Evolutionary Psychology in the *female* brain just so happen to be exactly what is needed in leadership at all levels of society in order to manage the complexities of our volatile, interconnected, technology-driven world. How many women are hardwired with these natural leadership traits? ALL women, of all ages, across all countries and cultures. Alexia Parks is Founder and CEO of the 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Academy: Creating A New Model of Leadership Based On The Female...Ready to Go Lead Something? Set Your Own Salary.
In a few weeks, I will be introducing Bianca Jagger at a breakfast in Denver hosted by America’s Latino ECO Festival. According to MassMedia, Bianca Jagger is the highest-paid activist in the world. Over the past year, she pulled in $58 million between September 2014 and September 2015. Ms Jagger’s millions drives home a timely reminder about how the work of women is valued in the workplace. For example, in the 5-hour standoff between Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards and GOP representatives, she was confronted with a question about her salary. This unusual line of questioning at a House hearing prompted me to create a one-minute leadership exercise for women. Are you ready to try it yourself? If so, take a moment to a look in the mirror and ask yourself: “How much would someone have to pay me to take over the job of Cecile Richards?” In the job description, you would be told that as president of Planned Parenthood you would be in charge of an organization that has been providing health care and family planning education to low income women, women in need, for 100-years. Reading between the lines of the job description, you would understand – at gut level – that the job also came with risks. There would be picket lines, there would be fire bombings, there would be death threats. Words would be hurled your way and hit you like a modern day stoning. You would be required to stand your ground. You would be assaulted with steely cold looks. You would be pointed at. You would be singled out. Your job would keep...Women Are Natural Leaders
DEAR ALEXIA You say that women are natural leaders. Are the ones that lead, high achievers, or do these women leaders emerge from events that drive them to it? – | Curious | DEAR CURIOUS, The answer is both. Yes, if the goal is diplomacy, collaboration and cooperation between citizens, communities, and nations, then my work shows that women are natural born leaders. In times of war, men lead. A balance of male-female leadership is what is absent in most HOT spots around the world today. This lack of balance in the U.S. Congress, for example, can create GRIDLOCK. Those women tagged “high achievers” have simply developed daily habits that help them focus on their goals. Those who are driven to lead by certain events have “a fire in the belly” that won’t be extinguished until their goal is met. In both cases, those who are successful leaders set up daily habits that help them focus on their goal. Thanks for asking! | Alexia Parks is the Founder of 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Development Academy. It is the ONLY leadership training program in the world based on the New Science of the Female Brain. That is, training based on how the FEMALE brain actually works....
Diet and Fitness: A Radical Act of Inner Alchemy
At a family birthday party, my granddaughter, age 3, took one bite of the birthday cake on her plate and a few spoons full of ice cream and then turned her attention to the frosting on the cake itself, which had been placed directly in front of her. I was sitting beside her but said nothing. Everyone at the table knew my views on sugar. “She can stuff herself with cake if she wants,” my son, her father, said. To me, like a cocaine addict, she was mainlining sugar. On the way home, I felt the frustration churning inside of me. So I did something remarkable. I decided to see how hard it would be for ME to say “NO” to sugar. I went through the kitchen cupboards and refrigerator and threw out anything that looked like sugar-in-the-raw, to me. Since I’m in a relationship, I threw out items that were purchased by me, for my own pleasure. I wasn’t planning to try to convert anyone else, just me. Imagine then, if you can, the shock to that protesting part of my inner self, when it saw me throwing out a bag of honey coated peanuts that I had just brought home from the store. Wait! You bought these on sale!! Into the trash they went. The 33% chocolate bar in the cupboard was next. It landed in the trash basket on top of the honey-coated peanuts. Then the jar of black cherry jam. The packets of sugar. Out. Hesitating a moment, I took the loaf of high fiber bread and put it out of sight, in the freezer....
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