WITI Business
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Workforce Diversity: Meeting the Challenges Head On
By Sherry Fox
Today's businesses are growing and experiencing rapid change due to many factors such as technology and globalization. Diversity is an important part of this change.
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Why Marketing Needs to Play Nice With IT
By Ghennipher Weeks
You’re probably reading this column because you’re either researching how to integrate marketing into your entire organization, or you’ve already done it and need ideas to keep it running smoothly.
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WITI Careers
ASOCIA Executives on Gender Diversity in the Boardroom & Building a Pipeline of Women Candidates
By Mark Welberg
Gender diversity in the boardroom is an issue of increasing interest for shareholders of U.S. corporations.
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Why Should I Care What I Look Like? Part 2
By Renee Weisman
DOs and DON'Ts
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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
10 Tips to Balance Your Life
By Kathleen Barton
Balancing work and life is one of the most challenging issues working women face. In fact, 90% of American mothers report work-family conflict
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Tips for Powering up Your Brand
By Shelley Hammell
We all know the power of branding from our everyday lives. And we choose to drive a particular car because of the brand.
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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
Meet the "New" Face of Animal Activism
By Gabby Wild
From Asia to Africa, Gabby Wild, the "new" face of animal activism, has traveled the world to aid animals.
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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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