leadership | leadership
Jan.14.2012
As a young teenager Lateefah seemed to be going nowhere. She dropped out of school and was on probation for shoplifting. Then someone offered her a different path. She changed directions and at 19 she took over a women's center helped women and girls find hope. Read this MacArthur Foundation Genus...
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Dec.18.2011
The Occupy movement has made a commitment to being and remaining a “leaderless movement.” Those of us unfamiliar with spaces where things get organized despite an absence of directors or “authorities” may find this to be a bold claim. “Of course there are leaders,” I’ve heard people argue. “If they...
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Dec.16.2011
The title of leader carries a major responsibility; it is not just a title.
We have all heard the adage, leaders are born; not made. I believe some are born while others are taught. Leadership, a critical management skill, is the ability to motivate a group of people toward a common goal. How you...
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Dec.12.2011
In order to break the cycle of girls growing into women who see their worth in terms of image, we need to talk to them about what really makes them beautiful. Read more about author Lisa Bloom’s advice to women about talking to girls on my Living in the Heartland blog.
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Nov.30.2011
Angela Addington is a database geek. It comes in handy as she matches a storehouse of toys with deserving children. She’s the founder of Hannah's Treasure Chest, a charitable organization that collects gentle-used items then channels them through community service organizations to children who...
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Nov.14.2011
Erin Curtiss is a midwife in Seattle. Haiti has a desperate for midwives. Women in Haiti are fifty times more likely to die during childbirth than women in America. Erin volunteered to go to Haiti to lend a hand. She was unprepared for what she discovered. Read her story on my Living in the...
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Nov.06.2011
mericans persist in telling and retelling the Thanksgiving story. It is a well-meaning celebration of the bounty of the land of the country and thanks to the Native American people who helped the Pilgrims who had newly immigrated. But Thanksgiving is a legend, a myth. Read about a Native American...
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Oct.24.2011
Mary Ann Angel might be described as the little mouse that roars. Her outward demeanor is neither loud nor forceful. However, her strength, unbounded energy to do good deeds, her concern for humanity, and readiness to extend the warmth of friendship is what demonstrate that this soft-spoken woman...
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Oct.04.2011
Life is tough for women in Afghanistan. The lack of childcare may seem like a trivial matter until you consider the need of one mother. Without child care options she has to fly dangerous supply missions to remote areas and disaster zones in a military helicopter – her 5-year-old daughter alongside...
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Oct.03.2011
"The Force of Adventure that He Soared”
He helped in his family’s company by day, and was a commercial pilot and instructor by night and week-ends.
He was ambitious.
He hardly found time for leisure or pleasure, and then again, ‘the force was the adventure that he soared!'
He eventually...
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