Progressive Organizational Movements

Evidence of a Mommy Track Bump: Returnees are seen as more motivated

October 21, 2009

Tweet This just in from the The Journal of ‘I’m Not Sure I Can Believe It’ … Well actually, from the The Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies: Research published in the August 2009 issue suggests that coming back to full-time work after a few years on the Mommy Track can make you look “unusually” […]

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Is the Mommy Track Bump Real?

October 21, 2009

Tweet Is the Mommy Track Bump real? Perhaps the biggest reservation to have about the study that (I suggest) proposes a Mommy Track Bump has to do with the research method my colleagues used. Because this research finding is from a lab experiment conducted among adult MBA students, it does not show that these differences […]

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The 10 Day Boycott: A S.M.A.R.T. response to Whole Foods’ CEO Mackey

August 27, 2009

Tweet Boycotts don’t work. Boycotts rarely, if ever, achieve the goal(s) set out for them, in large part because boycott organizers lack clear goals for what response the boycott is supposed to trigger and especially for what the boycotting action has to demonstrate in order to be seen as “successful”. So I’ve got a proposal, […]

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Wal-Mart Knocks Off the Girl Scouts

August 3, 2009

Tweet (Welcome MacLeans Readers… Please join the conversation! ) Just when you think your opinion about Wal-mart might be changing… Just when you think that maybe, just maybe, Wal-mart was learning to be a better citizen… Wal-mart turns around and does something really … despicable. It’s not discriminating against women, strong-arming suppliers, polluting neighborhoods or […]

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Peek inside an Authentic Organization: Blogging at Berrett-Koehler

July 14, 2009

Tweet Years of following industries that create culture have left me with a special fondness for book publishers. Year after year, season after season, page after page, book publishers create objects that convey what I love most — great ideas. Increasingly, book publishers do this in an embattled industry, towards a customer base with a […]

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Resources for Authenticity: Being vs. Understanding

June 30, 2009

Tweet What resources can organizations draw on to create and sustain an authentic sense of “who they are”? My class with the Darden EMBA students on Saturday danced around the questions of “How do organizations ‘source’ their identity? and “How do organizations sustain their authenticity?” Even though we had a chance to discuss many other […]

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Defend Your Personal Brand. Barbara Boxer shows how.

June 19, 2009

Tweet What can we learn from Senator Barbara Boxer and her interaction with Brigadier General Michael Walsh? 1. Defend your personal brand. 2. Ask to be treated in a way that reflects who you are, what you have accomplished, and what you stand for. 3. To do anything else is to allow your personal brand […]

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Reason #238 that we should have another woman on the Supreme Court

May 19, 2009

Tweet From Feministing. com Really, Ann Friedman nails it. No sense in trying to recap this… just head to the full article. (captioned photo from Feministing) Supreme Court: Pregnancy discrimination A-OK! “Today our nation’s highest court ruled in AT&T v. Hulteen that women who took maternity leave and were discriminated against by AT&T are shit […]

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Authentic Playlist at Misogyny Free Prom

May 15, 2009

Tweet A shout out to my girlfriends at Bust magazine, home of the GirlWideWeb and all things hip & 3rd wave feminist . They share the news today of an advocacy movement by The Women’s Health and Issues Club of the high school in Arcadia CA, which has resulted in a prom music playlist that […]

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Black Men & the Glass Elevator: Research to Remember

May 13, 2009

Tweet Often, when managers consider how men and women fare differently in the work of paid work, they make simple distinctions between the genders: Women are like this , men are like that . Then, they extrapolate from this simple distinction how a person’s gender will shape her or his career success. Racism & Sexism […]

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