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It's good to measure positive change, like women's full court professional basketball. Recognizing these changes is what we celebrate in March as Women's History Month. But I'm done with simply celebrating where we've been. Instead, if s time to look at March as more a celebration of our future - let's call it "Women Making History Month."
Smart leaders in Norway and other countries that focus on tapping the talents of women realize that at least half of the talent base of the future is made up of women. In an increasingly competitive world, no business or nation that fails to tap that talent is likely to succeed. We need to play catch-up and focus on women's advancement as a key part of our competitiveness. The World Economic Forum ranks women's advancement by country; the U.S. has now fallen to 31st.What an irony, then, that in the U.S., the talent pipeline is filled with women. By 2010, women are expected to hold 60 percent of the nation's wealth. Since 1996, a higher proportion of women than men have graduated from college, and the trend line is only expected to accelerate. But we'll continue to waste a lot of that talent unless we transform our outmoded model of "only men need apply" leadership.See the full content of this document
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Moving Women From Benchwarmers to Captains
Sometimes, progress is measured by half-court movements.
When I was in school, girls played basketball by different rules than the boys. We played on a half-court, and could only dribble three times before passing the ball. Girl...See the full content of this document
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