There have been some interesting articles floating around about women and our roles in business and leadership lately. I’ve posted a few on facebook and wanted to share here:
Richard Branson on Why We Need More Women in the Boardroom (a.k.a. 12 Angry Men) – Entrepreneur
Sheryl Sandberg’s Radically Realistic ‘And’ Solution for Working Mothers – The Atlantic
Are our colleges equipping women to be leaders? – Washington Post
Why I Was Never a “Feminist” – Stealthmode
Why Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s work from home ban is the wrong approach – The American CEO
4 Reasons Marissa Mayer’s No-At-Home-Work Policy Is an Epic Fail – Forbes
Yahoo Orders Home Workers Back to the Office – New York Times
The Most Powerful Women in Tech – 2012 – Forbes
There are have been many advancements to support women in the workplace and yet women still don’t have equal representation in many areas of senior leadership. For the first time ever, women are earning more college degrees than men. Yet at the senior level of most organizations, women are not very visible (i.e., “heard”) and sometimes their actions are deeply scrutinized by both men and women. It seems to be the ongoing price of progress, and I’m glad I’m living in the year 2013 versus 50 to 100 years ago. I think women have clearly demonstrated their value in the market place…now if they could earn equal pay for equal work across all job functions, that would be another step in the right direction…
To those men and women who take the time to teach women and young girls how to be leaders and provide them support as well as access to your networks to help them grow and learn from their failures & mistakes, thank you for your foresight, interest, and encouragement! “Give a man/woman a fish, he/she eats for a day. Teach them how to fish, they can eat for a lifetime.”
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The second day of SXSW Interactive is still going on in downtown Austin. I called it a night early since I’m too old for this stuff it’s become too mainstream and there are too many people. I’m not a big crowd person, which is one of the reasons I have no real interest in going to Mardi Gras in New Orleans…I like a little bit of personal space. As I mentioned in my first post about the conference, I was approaching this one in a zen-like, floating manner and so far I’m succeeding and my stress level and need to stay late at events has been very much reduced.
Yesterday, I made it to the keynote by Marissa Mayer, vice president of consumer products at Google. As some of the panels/keynotes at SXSW Interactive are, her talk was pretty much a big commercial for Google. They are focusing on location based services and maps. I love Google Maps. I don’t know how I lived without it since I’m directionally challenged and having a map on my iPhone telling me where to go, despite it being wrong about 10% of the time, has saved me much angst. I have since transferred that angst to other things in my life, but still.
I then went to the Entrepreneur’s Lounge, co-hosted by the Austin Technology Incubator, where I work, (awesome new website alert!! – designed by Clutch Creative) and connected with people I hadn’t seen in a while and met some new people. After that I went to Ignite Austin, but didn’t stay long because it was very loud so my friend Karen Banteverus who founded VolunteerSpot and I went next door to a restaurant to have hot tea and tortilla soup and catch up. I did see Michael Dell and his brother Adam who were sitting a couple rows ahead of me at Ignite Austin. I had met Adam for lunch with a couple of my co-workers before, but had never seen Michael that up close and personal before. Then I went home.
I checked out the Blogger’s Lounge (sponsored by Samsung) yesterday and today and was surprised at how few people I knew there. In just a few short years, the people I know/knew either aren’t here or aren’t at the Blogger’s Lounge. Things and people move on fast in Internet time.
Today, I saw the keynote by Seth Priebatsch, chief Ninja at SCVNGR. He’s something like 21 years old and dropped out of Princeton after his first year. I was really impressed with his talk and how he delivered it especially given his age. I think he’s someone to watch who will be doing some game changing things in the future. It made me wish I was 21 again and knew what I knew now…how differently I would approach life and business. He basically spoke about ways to apply a gaming layer to the world. In other words, applying game theory to solving some of our biggest problems. It’s not the first time to hear someone talk about this, but he presented it in a unique way. The room was completely full and there were several overfill rooms where his talk was being simulcast.
Then I headed to the Entrepreneur’s Lounge again this evening and then to the uShip party at their new offices on 3rd and Brazos (sweet!). I know the uShip founders from activities around the UT Austin business school and the CEO/Founder and I used to be in a Business to Consumer (B2C) group when I was running Babble Soft. After that party, I realized my calves were killing me from all the walking around downtown in my Skechers, but my toes/feet were fine because I wasn’t wearing heels! So I headed home to write this blog post and to see if there was a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy this past week that I could watch.
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