The clawing businesswomen

2009-02-07T13:08:00.000-08:00

I was reading over some statistics the other day. Not that I’m one to follow statistics, but sometimes I feel this need to see how I fit into the world. I discovered that women own 34 percent of small and mid-sized businesses and they are likely to have fewer than 20 employees. Women also tend to have businesses in the service sector, but the most notable statistic is that women-owned businesses are not producing the revenue of their male counterparts.

Successful leaders aren’t always concerned with immediate returns. They will often back people to gain long-term, committed support. In contrast, bad leaders tend to have a much more narrow vision, looking only at the task at hand, the immediate gains, while completely ignoring the opportunity a long-term relationship might offer. The fact is that men seem far more aware of the need to build support networks and create strong relationships that feed into them.

Women, in general, network far more than men but they rarely develop the relationships by supporting each other’s businesses. And this may be why male entrepreneurs tend to build bigger, more successful businesses than women. Successful leaders back others.

For more on this subject see debate at www.womenspost.ca/blogs

500 people trapped on ice flow

2009-02-07T13:02:00.000-08:00

What on earth were they thinking! My god CNN pictures show children out there.

The question I keep thinking of is ... if you saw a dozen people jump off a bridge would you follow them?

At this point they probably all wish they were home. Reminds me of the song Nathan Whiley wrote titled "Home" or a blog I just read on womenspost.ca website.

Let's pray they all get home safely

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The clawing businesswomen

500 people trapped on ice flow