Could America Have To Wait Until 2025 For A Woman President?

Could America Have To Wait Until 2025 For A Woman President?

by | Feb 10, 2016 | 10 Traits, Article, Leadership Opportunity, Sustainability

If Election 2016 turns out to be a slugfest between two white men will the winner gain a two-term presidency? If so, the United States (an oxymoron?) may well have to wait until January 2025 for a woman to be inaugurated president of the United States. Here’s a reality check…. A few years ago, I did a series of interviews for an article titled “The Best Boss I Ever Had Was A Woman.” When I asked women do describe this “favorite” boss to me, they returned blank stares. Most of their bosses were men, and the few women they had encountered in management, had been trained to fit into a male structured world. The best boss, a woman? Well “the times,” as the song goes, “they are a’ changing.” Men, with their goal-seeking, single focused, team spirited, testosterone charged drive have brought us this far. Now, a new study…., (READ more. Includes LINKS) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexia-parks/are-women-willing-to-wait_b_9198742.html...
Bitcoin, Cyber Pirates, and The Future of Money

Bitcoin, Cyber Pirates, and The Future of Money

by | Jan 22, 2016 | 10 Traits, Article, Leadership Opportunity, Sustainability, UN Women, United Nations

In reporting on the fate of the bitcoin in The Washington Post, Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and the author of R.I.P. Bitcoin, may want to add two additional factors to its possible demise. The first is the fact that a number of unknown hackers around the world had found a way to temporary disrupt corporate communications and databases. Their target was small corporate businesses around the globe and they were demanding that the ransom be paid in bitcoins. In one corporate case I studied while studying the impact of corporate leadership to unexpected crisis, the ransom fee was 1,000 bitcoins. It wasn’t the small amount of the ransom, I was told. Instead, it was the fact that bitcoin’s so-called “pirates” were also making similar demands of other businesses they had hijacked. Their strategy: hack into a corporate database, interrupt the flow of their business services and then demanding immediate payment, in bitcoins, in exchange for restored service. The hackers rightly reasoned that the automatic response would be: “OK, its a small fee, go ahead and pay it. Let’s move on.” Many did just that. In this case, the CEO divided the workforce into two groups. Group A would dive deep into the system to find the leak, and plug it. Group B focused on making contact with every customer to explain what happened, and when they could expect to have the disruption of their online service repaired. That is, the job of the group assigned to customer outreach was to tell each customer exactly what was going on, and what...