From CNN authored by Eric Levenson and Emanuella Grinberg: “Name a major political issue from the past few decades, and chances are that Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the landmark decision on it during his time on the Supreme Court. Since his ascension to the court in 1988, Kennedy has authored some of the judicial body’s […]
Category Archives: Leadership
How a Gift From Kate Spade Helped This Young Woman Succeed at Her First Big Job
From TIME authored by Alix Langone: “Tassion Minor was gearing up for her upcoming summer internship in New York City when she realized she didn’t have many office-ready outfits in her closet at home in New Orleans. “I was being exposed to different professional opportunities, many of which required me to dress in business attire, […]
A schoolteacher devoted 45 years to helping students with disabilities. Now she’s leaving them $1 million
From CNN authored by Madeleine Thompson and Kwegybira Croffie: “Genevieve Via Cava loved teaching and loved her students. Now, seven years after her death, they are learning just how much. The teacher in Dumont, New Jersey, devoted 45 years of her life to helping students with learning disabilities. After her retirement in 1990, Via Cava […]
How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality
From TIME authored by Allison Yarrow: “As the 90s dawned things were looking up for women. Daughters of second-wave feminism came of age and chose new paths unavailable to their mothers: delaying marriage and children, pursuing higher education, joining the workforce, and assuming independence and identities outside of the home. The gaps between men and women in education “have […]
Thousands of Migrant Children Are Being Separated From Their Families at the Border. Here’s How to Help Them
From TIME authored by Alix Langone: “Nearly 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border as part of the Trump administration’s controversial “zero-tolerance” policy on border crossings — and many people are still looking for ways to help the families, even as the White House acted to adjust that policy on Wednesday. President […]
We asked 10 kids to “draw a leader”–here’s what they did
From Fast Company authored by Vivian Giang: “Kids have a lot of traits commonly identified in good leaders–brilliantly perceptive, brutally honest, ruthlessly observant, steadily curious. So when we saw the The New York Times article reporting that executives–regardless of their own gender–generally drew a man when asked to draw a leader, we wondered when that bias starts and what lessons […]
If It Doesn’t Suck, It’s Not Worth Doing
From Inc. authored by Benjamin P. Hardy: “According to psychological research, the anticipation of an event is almost always more emotionally powerful than the event itself. The dread of asking your boss for a raise is paralyzing and can last months. Yet, once you get yourself to finally do it, it’s over before you know it. The excitement of attaining some object or objective […]
The extraordinary courage of an ordinary woman: Lorena Weeks broke barriers for working women
From TimeLine authored by Meagan Day: “Lorena Weeks worked nearly all her life. When she was a child in Georgia, her father was killed in a sawmill accident, and her mother — 29 years old, with four children — struggled to make ends meet. She entered the workforce, and Lorena did, too. “I went to work at the five-and-ten-cent […]
Artist Reimagines Disney Princesses As Career Women And It’s Everything
From Scary Mommy authored by Christine Marfice: “Disney princesses are role models for a ton of kids, but there’s a big problem with that. So many of the classic princesses make catching a man one of their primary goals, but an artist used his talent to point out that there’s more to life than getting […]
Work, Sleep, Family, Fitness, or Friends: Pick 3
From Inc. authored by Jessica Stillman: “Endless ink (and pixel space) has been spent discussing the challenges of work-life balancefor founders. But entrepreneur and former Facebook director of market development (and Mark Zuckerberg sibling) Randi Zuckerberg managed to convey the challenges and tradeoffs of the entrepreneurial lifestyle in a rather more concise fashion on Twitter a few years back: […]
