WITI Business
Business Beyond Borders - Global Skills for Today’s Boards to Secure Tomorrow’s Success
By Mona Pearl
As the world becomes more dependent on technology, and as trade borders become seamless, how can boards acquire the tools and skills necessary to be effective and relevant in the global market?
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Ikea's Former CEO on How to Collaborate
By Margaret Heffernan
A variety of strategies can help your team work well together. But one is more important than the rest: Get rid of the soloists.
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WITI Careers
Business Beyond Borders - Global Skills for Today’s Boards to Secure Tomorrow’s Success
By Mona Pearl
As the world becomes more dependent on technology, and as trade borders become seamless, how can boards acquire the tools and skills necessary to be effective and relevant in the global market?
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GOALS 2012 – Transform Yourself to Success!
By Kathy Hill
Are you ready to have the best year of your life in 2012? Do you want to feel passionate about your life and your career?
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WITI Health
Nine Levels of Health For Women Professionals and Executives
By Liping Feng
As another new year is approaching, it is a perfect time to do an overall health & success checkup on yourself. The Nine Levels of Health is a simple system that can help you to keep track of all the significant aspects of life. Because of the busy lifestyle of most women professionals and leaders, we seldom get a chance to sit down and reflect on our life as a whole. And yet the whole is what truly matters, because that’s the bottom line, the sum total. In these fast changing times, it is easy to forget that life (and work) is like a big garden with many plants and flowers, which, if neglected, will perish. Once the damage has occurred, the repairing process is going to be much more costly than preventive measures.
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Making Peace With Your Own Heart
By Liping Feng
February 4th was Go Red Day again. Even with all the campaigns and publicity in the media, many of us are just too busy multitasking to pay attention to our heart. According to statistics, about half of the female population in this country is still unaware that cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer of women. Many women who experience their first heart attack also die from it. In other words, this killer can creep up on you without a warning (or with a warning you don't normally recognize). It is likely you will be caught off guard.
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WITI Wealth
Protect Your Pension
By Rick Rodgers
The Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) turns five years old this month. As companies rush to shore up pension or cancel underfunded plans you need to protect yourself from common pension mistakes. PPA was designed to close loopholes in the pension system and addresses problems for the roughly 34 million Americans covered by traditional pensions known as defined-benefit plans.
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Salary Negotiations
By Judi Martindale
When I was in high school, Betty Friedan's book, The Feminine Mystique, changed my life.nHaving read it, I had an increased awareness and concern about our rights as women but, at the time, I was thinking about personal rights, not financial rights.
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WITI Leadership
Ikea's Former CEO on How to Collaborate
By Margaret Heffernan
A variety of strategies can help your team work well together. But one is more important than the rest: Get rid of the soloists.
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An interview with Beth Beck of NASA, NASATweetup, and more!
By Meg Campbell
Beth Beck has been with NASA for 25 years and currently enjoys a position where she gets to tell the story of space.
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WITI Personal Growth
Business Beyond Borders - Global Skills for Today’s Boards to Secure Tomorrow’s Success
By Mona Pearl
As the world becomes more dependent on technology, and as trade borders become seamless, how can boards acquire the tools and skills necessary to be effective and relevant in the global market?
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GOALS 2012 – Transform Yourself to Success!
By Kathy Hill
Are you ready to have the best year of your life in 2012? Do you want to feel passionate about your life and your career?
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WITI Technology
Choose Your Next Device Based on Need
By Renee Weisman
There are so many new gadgets out there, it is hard to stay on top of what is offered as well as know when to turn yours in for a newer model.
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An interview with Beth Beck of NASA, NASATweetup, and more!
By Meg Campbell
Beth Beck has been with NASA for 25 years and currently enjoys a position where she gets to tell the story of space.
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WITI Women
Great Women at WITI: Isn’t it Better to Have a Life of Oh Wells Than What Ifs?
By Renee Blodgett
Clearly I don’t get to New York often enough, by now I would have met writer and products guru Maya Baratz, who is currently working on new products at The Wall Street Journal.
She started out by asking the nearly all women audience at WITI (Women in Technology International): How many of you are still waiting for your mentor? How many of you spend your time trying to prove someone wrong?
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WITI Summit 2011 Rocked! NextGen Rocked Too!
By Teresa Guilian
The last 2 days have been an amazing, positive, supportive conference with women from everywhere with all kinds of insight, suggestions and help to each of us. Yesterday was my first time participating in NextGen, a program for young girls interested in science, technology, math as a career. The girls I took already told me that they all want to go next year! It was neat to hear Facebook Director of Engineering, Jocelyn Goldfein speak with the high school students.
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