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Not really - especially for women - according to some research by Guido Heineck that was cited in the Daily Telegraph recently. None of this is a surprise to me due to a long participation in business and, in particular, male dominated areas such as finance and IT. Some of
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I had the pleasure of speaking, along with Karen Ganschow from Telstra, at the FITT CeBIT lunch today in Sydney. We had a great turnout and there were even a few men in attendance. It's FITT's 20th anniversary this year - a big milestone for a
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I'll be talking about social networking from a career perspective at the FITT lunch on 13 May in Sydney. This is very topical now with the global financial crisis starting to hit Australia. Our personal & business networks will be critical, not only for staying in touch with
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I'll be talking about social networking from a career perspective at the FITT lunch on 13 May in Sydney. This is very topical now with the global financial crisis starting to hit Australia. Our personal & business networks will be critical, not only for staying in touch with
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I have seen many young, fit, intelligent people with a fine education, sound values and good family behind them. But they do not realise that what they make of them every day from now is up to them. Many people with those advantages do nothing with their lives. It is
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A friend who works in IT support (for a very large and well known IT industry multi national doing security patching and stuff) just phoned me because his boss wants him to work overnight to do a release and then to front up to work again early tomorrow morning. This
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Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: "Honey, you must be very young. It's not just about how hard you work. The ole' boy's network is alive and well - you just haven't reached a high enough
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Recently I posted on bullies @ work & made some fairly harsh comments about a colleague who had been doing this sort of thing often and openly. The other day I actually had some time to talk with this person and discovered that they had been going through a very difficult
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I am getting really tired of bullying in the workplace. I've worked in many places - being in info tech I change jobs every two years - and the bullies are mainly babyboomer men (there do not seem to be many women bullies where I've worked)
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More food for thought from Ally about women, men & feminism ... As Ally notes, "What too many women do not understand is just how privileged we truly are - especially in today's climate in the free world. We are not caged by our womb - we are
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Found this site in my wanderings the other day when I was supposed to be studying for an exam. It is based on a book called The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers by James M. Citrin and Richard A. Smith and more info can be found at www.5patterns.com.
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Found a great quote about self esteem yesterday: "Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." (J. Petit-Senn, Conceits and Caprices) This seems to encapsulate my feelings about the current obsession with building up self esteem even in the face of indubitable evidence as the individual'