Spring Break Photo Album

by Leigh on April 23, 2012 · 0 comments

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How often do you take a vacation to get away from your usual workplace routine to enjoy a totally different experience?  I did.  It is part of my life business:  getting away to a new environment.  After this trip, I was refreshed, relaxed, and ready to resume my activities inManhattan.

Spring break from teaching at Baruch took me to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.  I stayed with my niece Tomi Sue and her cats, dog, and horse.  Below is my photo album of images from a wonderful time with family and the new friends I’ve made after many trips to the area.

One of the first things I did on Tomi Sue’s five acres was to walk around looking at the flowering plants—like white daffodils—and the wildflowers that were blooming.  On Sunday, we went for a lovely Easter dinner at Tony and Dana’s, Tomi Sue’s sister, who live in the wine country of Napa Valley.  Of course, the food was excellent as was the wine. [click to continue…]

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Impact of Gender Pay Gap

by Leigh on April 3, 2012 · 0 comments

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Yesterday, I received a “Major Issues, Major Impact Questionnaire” from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), an organization breaking barriers for women and girls.  Answering the questionnaire is important since “AAUW research and education programs are used by federal, state, and local agencies and academics to address gender and gender gap issues positively.”

AAUW was the resource that the U.S. Congress used to pass the Lilly Ledbetter bill, the first bill signed by President Barack Obama.  According to an article “Obama Signs Equal-Pay Legislation” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in The New York Times on January 29, 2009, “the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (is) a law named for an Alabama woman who at the end of a 19-year career as a supervisor in a tire factory complained that she had been paid less than men.”

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Stories of Insider Traders

March 30, 2012
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Print This Post “Ethics Week 2012” at Baruch College generated a series of programs featuring guest speakers and faculty members.  Tuesday, March 27, I attended “The Story of an Exposed Insider Trader” sponsored by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity (ZCCI). Donald H. Schepers, Academic Director of ZCCI, moderated a panel discussion for a [...]

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Baruch Among 2013 Best Graduate Schools

March 29, 2012
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Print This PostThinking of going to graduate school in New York City?  Below is a press release entitled “U.S. News & World Report Ranks Baruch College Among ‘2013 Best Graduate Schools’” issued by the school that may help you decide where you will attend. NEW YORK, NY-March 13, 2012 –  Baruch College’s Zicklin School of [...]

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Interviewer Doesn’t Need Facebook Password

March 27, 2012
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Print This PostDid you read it?  “Senators Question Employer Requests for Facebook Passwords” by The Associated Press was published in The New York Times on Sunday, March 25, 2012.  Why you should read this article now is that, “The Associated Press reported last week that some private and public agencies around the country were asking [...]

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Sean McBrien: Leader and Teacher

March 14, 2012
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Print This PostOn the last days of December 1996, I took on a technology consulting assignment that was to last two-to-three days in the Marketing & Communications Department at Merrill Lynch & Co.  That assignment stretched out to over three years and I’m very glad it did.  In 1997, Sean McBrien began working in the [...]

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Watts Towers: An Inspiration for All

March 12, 2012
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Print This Post“I know I want to do something.  I say, ‘I’m a gonna do something, I’m a gonna do something, I’m a gonna do something.’”  Simon Rodia did do something:  he single-handedly built what would become the world-famous Watts Towers, located in South Central Los Angeles.  The art work designed and executed by Rodia [...]

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Women of the World: International Women’s Day 2012

March 8, 2012
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Print This PostToday is International Women’s Day, a day of events to bring forward and reflect on the women who have made a difference in the political, economic, social, and other areas of their countries. There are two ways that I am ‘celebrating’ International Women’s Day.  One is to read the March 12, 2012 issue [...]

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Authenticity By Design

March 7, 2012
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Print This PostTimeless leadership is always about character, and it is always about authenticity…To be authentic is literally to be your own author (the words derive from the same Greek root), to discover your own narrative energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. When you are real in [...]

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Attitude in a Job Interview

February 29, 2012
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Print This PostOut of 20,000 new hires, the failure rate was 46% according to Mark Murphy, founder and CEO of Leadership IQ.  His research on this topic revealed that the reason the failure rate was so high was because 89% of the new hires demonstrated a lack of coachability, poor emotional intelligence, mixed motivation (to [...]

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