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Success: If you want it, you have to give it away.
Article 03/09/12 “If you want love, you have to give it away. If you want money, you have to give it away. If you want success, you have to give it away” says Ken Blanchard, one of the world’s most i
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Persoonlijke presentatie Carla Smits-Nusteling: authentiek en professioneel
Farah Nobbe
Column 25/07/11 Tijdens het LEAP event van 6 juni jongstleden sprak KPN CFO Carla Smits-Nusteling een welkomstwoord uit. Hierin vertelde ze haar persoonlijke verhaal over haar eigen benoeming als CFO. Toen ze het heu
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Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 19/02/12 After having read an article about Ionica Smeets, one of the two 'math-girls'. I got intrigued and bought the book 'Ik was altijd heel slecht in wiskunde', that she wrote together with the other math
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In the spotlight: Stefania Usai, beleidsmedewerker NWO
Video 11/07/11 LEAP is about connecting and inspiring. Watch this film in which Stefania Usai shares her life motto with us! It will most certainly inspire you and make you proud of her courage to step forwar
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We proudly present: Groundbreakers
Proudly 07/09/09 We strongly believe in the power of women’s leadership, not only within our own organization, but also in our communities – the world we live in. The Ernst & Young Grou
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Charlene Li on Open Leadership
Http://www.briansolis.com/2010/10/revolution-episode-4-charlene-li-on-open-leadership/
Column 22/10/10 "Open Leadership: how Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead", door Charlene Li.
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Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 08/10/11 In September of this year I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Beijing to teach a class of twenty-two Chinese IT Architects, including five (5!!) women. I was very excited about this trip as it
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New Leadership: The Values Film impression
Video 14/06/11 For those of you who were there: a nice souvenir. For those of you who missed it: get a taste of what happened and who was there.
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Work Life balance: it's about setting boundaries
Article 04/07/12 Like true love, clean energy, and world peace, the notion of a perfect balance between work and life is a wonderful idea, but one that seems elusive and impractical. Yet, all hope is not lost. Therapi
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Is feedback hard to swallow for women?
Yonda Poslavsky
Column 02/09/10 Women, in my experience, find it harder to deal with criticism or feedback as it is: something related to what they’ve done and not who they are. The question was brought to my att
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Women in Technology - Let's keep the momentum NOW!
Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 05/06/11 In October 2009 in my first LEAP! blog I asked myself and you the question, what sort of networks are needed to include female technical professionals and help them progress. Do we need separate netwo
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You stand out more as a woman in a group of men
Proudly 04/09/09 2009 was an exceptional year for me. Following Joop Wijn’s sudden departure from Rabobank, I took over his role as Director of the SME Directorate at Rabobank Nederland on an interim basis.
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Mijntje Lückerath: Towards a balanced composition?
Mijntje Lückerath-Rovers
Column 12/07/10 Will Dutch corporates manage to have 30 percent women in their executive and supervisory boards without government interference such as quotas? Dr Mijntje Luckerath-Rovers rev
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Erica Van Ooyen
Blog 04/04/11 Self Leadership - Values - Authenticity - what does it take?
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A polite way to tell leaders they're bad at communication
Article 28/05/12 It’s not polite to tell your CEO, “Hey, you’re a terrible communicator.” What is more polite (and, ultimately more pragmatic) is to benchmark existing leader communication effe
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Employee 2.0 versus previous generations
Yonda Poslavsky
Column 07/05/10 Marjolein wanted to work part-time, but has decided against it after elder colleagues gave her ‘the ins and outs on how hard their generation fought to be accepted in the workforce
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Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 02/04/11 Every two weeks I play the bass clarinet in an all-women woodwinds group. The bass clarinet is the second largest member from the clarinet family. I have to play the fourth voice. This is not very spe
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Bea Haring: ‘Show some grit and be yourself’
Proudly 04/09/09 Since 2008 Bea Haring has had the distinction of being the first woman on Ernst & Young’s Executive Committee, and a standard bearer for female leadership.
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Are we responsible for our own lives?
Betsy Sobiech
Column 26/11/09 When we accomplish an inspiring goal like getting a promotion, running a marathon, publishing a book, or raising successful children it’s easier to say, “Yes, I am responsible for
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Disclosing information about yourself is intrinsically rewarding
Article 28/05/12 You might wonder about why people talk about themselves so much. Keeping everyone informed about their shopping, pets, parties and friends on Facebook or Twitter. It’s is because self-disclosure
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Non-executive directorships: why?
Margot Scheltema
Column 08/10/09 It used to be simple. One transmogrified from an executive into a non-executive member of the Board around retirement date...
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An active personal life is good for your career
Article 21/05/12 In an interesting article for The Glass Hammer , Christine Brown Quinn, says that with all the talk about work-life conflict, you would have thought that having a personal life detracts from your prof
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Reputations: managing your most valuable asset
Karin Roeleveld
Column 08/10/09 A reputation is one of your most valuable corporate assets. And as the saying goes: It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Every week Karin Roelevel
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Why Vulnerability Can Be Your Biggest Strength
Article 15/05/12 In her executive coaching practice, Henna Inam meets a lot of strong and smart women leaders whose success has come from always proving that they are smarter and more competent than those
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Are you MOM ENOUGH to do this?
Article 14/05/12 Are you MOM ENOUGH? Weird question, but Time would like to know. To be able to answer it however, you would first have to know what enough is. Apparently breast feeding your child till it
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Professional women's networks not effective unless…..
Article 16/04/12 Professional women are “lukewarm” about the effectiveness of women’s networks at work. According to a new study of the Simmons School of Management the majority of middle to se
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COO Sheryl Sandberg leaves the office at 5.30 - you should too!
Article 16/04/12 Somewhere in our lives, ending one’s workday before 8:00 p.m. became a source of shame and sign of laziness — or at least that’s what many of us have tricked ourselves into believing
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The biggest mistake you (probably) make with teams
Article 09/04/12 Which is more important to promoting collaboration: a clearly defined approach toward achieving the goal, or clearly specified roles for individual team members? The common assumption is that spelling
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Lead by example: work-life balance for your team
Article 02/04/12 Almost half of adults aged 16 and over in Great Britain recently reported a ‘relatively low’ satisfaction with their work-life balance, according to findings from the Office for National S
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5 Personality types needed for innovation
Article 26/03/12 Innovation is a prerequisite for corporate growth, but can it be achieved with Hangers-On and Controllers? Forbes Insights’ recent study, “Nurturing Europe’s Spirit of Enterprise: Ho
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7 steps to make difficult conversations easier
Article 05/03/12 Coach Henna Inam shared some very useful tips that will make a difficult conversation easier in a recent blog for theglasshammer. Many situations you find yourself in call for conservations to be had.
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To Attract talent business culture should resonate emotional intelligence
Article 28/02/12 According to an article by Terry Murray people misinterpreted Darwin’s theory of evolution. It isn’t survival of the fittest, it is those that are most adaptive that survive. W
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Beware of the paradox of meritocracy
Article 20/02/12 In an interesting article on the theglasshammer.com Curt Rice explains why it is important to base gender diversity programmes on knowledge instead of ideas and anecdotes. If you think gen
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Leading by example: The Role Model Effect
Article 13/02/12 A new study co-authored by MIT economist Esther Duflo, shows that the increased presence of local female political leaders in India has had a marked impact on adolescents and their families, raising t
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Corporate talent programs fall short
Article 06/02/12 Despite a new wave of uncertainty, many leading companies are pressing forward and reshaping their talent strategies. Many executives foresee leadership shortages in the year ahead and are looking at
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Article 30/01/12 How can women break through and reach the boardrooms? The book Break Your Own Rules reveals what it really takes for any woman to succeed at the highest levels. By distilling six faulty assumptions mo
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What to do if you are a 'token woman' on the board?
Article 19/01/12 One woman on the board is a token, two is a minority; three means you are really getting there. We don’t want to be token woman…but what to you do if you realize you were only hired
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Article 16/01/12 Why is passion so important for leaders? Because it’s a lot easier to get people tot follow you when they believe in you en can share your enthusiasm.
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Article 06/01/12 Carla Smits-Nusteling maakte deze week bekend dat zij per 1 april 2012 opstapt als CFO van KPN, omdat ze zich volgens het persbericht ‘ uiteindelijk niet kan vinden in de wijze van b
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Mine's Bigger than Yours: Challenges of Being a Female Breadwinner
Article 05/12/11 Shhhh… The woman in the office next to you, your high-flying sister, perhaps even you… is earning more than her male partner. More and more women do, yet it’s a secret we don&rsquo
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Article 29/11/11 When historians write about business in late 20th and early 21st century America, they will say it was a time of intense leadership scrutiny – not only of executives’ results but of how th
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Working moms feel guilty, stay-at-home moms too
Article 28/11/11 The Working Mother Research Institute recently completed a new survey examining what women are choosing when it comes to work and life. And, crucially, why? One of the more surprising results is that
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Strategies for Self-Promotion without the Backlash
Article 15/11/11 The best strategy to get a raise is to make your achievements known around the office. Seems simple enough, right? Let your co-workers know about a deal that went your way. Be sure to get credit for i
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Confessions from men feeling guilty
Article 07/11/11 In his blog for Forbes, Gene Marks explains why most women will never become CEO’s. It’s because men like him and their sons didn’t change. And probably will not change because
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Indrukwekkende CVs in Opzij Top-100
Article 31/10/11 Vorige week presenteerde Opzij de Top-100 van invloedrijke vrouwen in tien categorieën, variërend van sport en cultuur tot politiek en bedrijfsleven. Op de lijst komen bekende namen vo
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Article 31/10/11 This month in Tiara, we are focusing on “alignment” and what it means to be in alignment with yourself, others, your job, and your life. Two very clear and common applications of “al
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Voorbeelden van zelf-leiderschap
Article 10/10/11 Op 6 juni jl vond het LEAP New Leadership event bij KPN plaats. Een bijeenkomst rond het thema (persoonlijk) leiderschap, waar interessante discussies ontstonden. Ik sprak er later o
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Learning about effective leadership by rappelling waterfalls
Article 03/10/11 Are you a horizontal leader? Read Laura Berger’s interesting article on the parallels of waterfall rappelling and leadership and learn how to navigate the rock face of your career.
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Gender gap is bad for world economy says Clinton
Article 26/09/11 At the APEC summit in San Francisco this month, US secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on member nations to break down economic and social barriers for women. Women need access to capital, acces
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Servant leaders serve who? No one, themselves, as many as possible?
Article 17/09/11 The concept of servant leadership is quite popular and more and more peple describe themselves as servant leader. But Mitch Maidique, a professor of management at Florida International University, say
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Surfing for fun during work increases productivity
Article 17/09/11 We’ve all been there before. It’s Friday. The day is dragging on. You’ve got a massive amount of work staring at you between now and dinner. The weather outside is gorgeous. But&hell
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Quotas: tokenism or necessary push to correct wrong views?
Article 16/08/11 According to a recent survey by executive recruiters Harvey Nash, 81% of women feel that bias in the appointment process has a major impact on female representation – but two-thirds (64%) do not
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Working fathers struggle with the juggle
Article 09/08/11 A recent report by A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center, a national legal advocacy organization, revealed that nearly 85 percent of fathers feel pressure to be both a financial provider
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What is thought leadership and how can companies pursue it?
Article 26/07/11 Many corporations feel that they should be developing a thought leadership strategy. Some – like Unilever and Philips - are quite successful at it. Some have no idea what thought le
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Carla Smits-Nusteling, CFO van KPN, onderscheiden met de CFO Award 2011.
Article 25/07/11 De jury reikte tijdens de 10e editie van CFO Day de CFO Special Achievement Award aan Smits-Nusteling van KPN, vanwege haar bijzondere bijdrage aan de strategieontwikkeling van haar organisatie
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Waarom begrijp je me niet? Beter samenwerken door het (h)erkennen van communicatiestijlen.
Article 18/07/11 Even een snelle test. Welk motto past bij jou? Tijd is geld, niet lullen maar poetsen en gevoelens zijn voor thuis! Een dag niet gelachen is een dag niet geleefd e
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Echt leiderschap vraagt grondige zelfkennis
Article 11/07/11 Het kind in de leider.. In elke volwassene schuilt een kind. Daarvan zijn verreweg de meeste mensen zich wel bewust. Vrijwel elke psycholoog houdt rekening met de invloed van jeugdervaringen op het la
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Why are we bad at picking good leaders?
Article 04/07/11 We complain about our leaders. So we eventually get rid of them and we move on to the next one with the hope that it will be different this time. But it’s not. And we’re back where we star
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Aandeel e-shoppers in 2010 verder gestegen
Article 04/07/11 De populariteit van e-shoppen groeit nog steeds. In 2010 kochten 9,3 miljoen Nederlanders goederen of diensten via internet. Daarmee groeide het aandeel e-shoppers onder internetgebruikers tot 77
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Get your own personal leadership values report for free!
Article 19/06/11 The Australian based consultancy and coaching firm Values Grid invites you to explore your values and fully realise your leadership potential. It offers you, free of charge, your own personal v
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What happened at the 6 June event – and what it meant to us
Article 08/06/11 LEAP’s ‘New Leadership – The Values’ conference was held at 3:30 pm on Monday 6 June. The afternoon began with a gentle milling of the 200-plus crowd at the KPN HQ in The Hague
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Article 07/06/11 Thank you Sayoko …. For creating serenity & connecting us to our senses. Connection is the word and the intention for today. Connection to ourselves, each other
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Peter Molengraaf, CEO Alliander: De wet van compassie
Article 06/06/11 De wet van compassie is een leidend principe in het leven van Peter Molengraaf, CEO van Alliander. Respect voor een ieder waarmee je een relatie hebt, of dat nu zakelijk of privé is, staa
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The LEAP Leadership Journey #2
Article 30/05/11 Interview with Erica van Ooyen (Part 2) In March 2010, the LEAP community embarked on a journey – a journey that saw deep dialogue and collaboration on issues surr
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Jos Nijhuis, CEO Schiphol: Inspirerend en toegankelijk.
Article 30/05/11 Jos Nijhuis, president-directeur van Schiphol Group, heeft ‘inspirerend’ bovenaan zijn lijstje persoonlijke leiderschapswaarden staan. Inspirerend is ook een kernwoord voor het aantrekken
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LEAP New leadership event: The Values
Article 17/05/11 Meet the Leaders, get inspired, get connected! A linear world is changing to a complex and chaotic one where, networks and systems thinking
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Holistic Leadership: The Starbucks example
Article 25/04/11 In an article for Evolved Employer Melissa Anderson says there are three reasons why holistic leadership means becoming a better employer. She uses the recently published book by Starbucks’ Chai
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Carla Smits-Nusteling: Best in Finance
Article 10/03/11 KPN trekt toptalent aan. In amper vijf jaar tijd bracht KPN zijn financiële organisatie terug van 1400 naar 780 mensen. Tegelijkertijd gingen de prestaties met sprongen voo
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Regine Stachelhaus: Ein deutsches Beispiel
Article 07/02/11 In Germany only four women are in the board of directors of DAX-groups. An article in Die Zeit tells us the story
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There is a You-Shaped Hole in this world
Article 31/01/11 The world has a you-shaped hole in it. A beautiful idea we found in a poem by Tara Mohr. It is published in ‘The Real Life’, a collection of eight poems Tara she wrote at her Wi
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Article 24/01/11 Yours is yours and his is ‘family-income’? The recession is over! Apparently it ended quietly last year in a windowless office of a dyslexic statistician working for the
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Leptin: How to make a fat-burning hormone work for you
Article 17/01/11 The holidays came and went, and now we are here again: The mid-winter bulges and blahs. From the holiday treats that you want to burn off, to the frosty weather that keeps you indoors, chances are eve
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Het nieuwe werken schreeuwt om nieuw leiderschap
Article 03/01/11 ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ luidde de befaamde kreet uit Bill Clinton’s verkiezingscampagne. Als het gaat om het nieuwe werken (HNW) is het credo eerder: ‘it’s the l
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Article 29/11/10 What do hardworking Americans think about Dutch spoiled princesses?Women should work longer hours. It is their duty to use their educations and skills. But instead of financial independenc
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Challenge: building the ultimate LEAP-list!
Article 20/11/10 First off, my congratulations to Anette Stolvoort, senior IT Architect with IBM Netherlands! She was awarded Best Female ICT professional of the year by
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IT shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
Article 17/11/10 IT shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making: it is all about (a lack of) trust.
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Worstelen met de term leiderschap. Is een leider de baas?
Article 15/11/10 Bianca Heiszwolf was een van de discussieleiders tijdens de parallel sessie van LEAP! op het event van Talent naar de Top. Aan haar tafel ontspon zich een interessante discussie over de term ‘ni
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Article 08/11/10 Queen Bee behavior by senior female leaders makes the glass ceiling thicker. This rather sad but interesting conclusion can be drawn from new research by Gonda de Groot. It shows
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LEAP Connected Ambition Highlights
Article 17/09/10 The pictures said it all: the LEAP Connected Ambition Event –powered by IBM, was a dazzling success. Here are some of the hig
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Maaike Kamphuis on change through networks
Article 17/09/10 As old school processes diminish in importance within organisations, change in networks inevitably follows. IBM’s change consultant Maaike Kamphuis believes that by better understandi
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‘LEAP-women more social media savvy than organisation
Article 16/09/10 The results of the Social Media Profiler, a study to understand how women leaders use new ways of communicating and collaborating, reveal that while LEAP-women are pioneer users of social m
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Article 16/09/10 Earlier this year, Ann De Jaeger wrote ‘we need a distinctively different next generation business model if women
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Change Consultancy with Maaike Kamphuis
Article 09/09/10 As an HR change consultant at IBM, Maaike Kamphuis focuses on collaboration at work and bringing people together, irrespective of their physical location, department or position.
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‘Find your stakeholders and your enemies’
Article 09/09/10 New ways of communicating and collaborating challenge us to rethink the current ones. Liselore Ammerlaan-van Rijn, IBM&r
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LEAP Ambition event: The Speakers (4) Araz Najarian
Article 02/09/10 Araz Najarian is responsible for designing and delivering projects enabling the development of next generation leadership in various organisations; from transport and logistics to telecom
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‘Self-Leadership is a continuous path’
Article 25/08/10 Bianca Heiszwolf has been in marketing management at Philips for almost ten years. She’s presently Consumer Marketing Director Kitchen Appliances. Bianca was literally on her way out for
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LEAP Ambition event: The Speakers (2), Ann De Jaeger
Article 12/08/10 Her passion for teaching and technology crowned her the queen of management videos. Ann De Jaeger is presently Managing Partner of Executive Learning Partnership (ELP). She’s one of the
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‘It’s about setting goals for yourself’
Article 05/08/10 Carina de Walle is Business Development Manager at law firm Loyens & Loeff. A broad portfolio, which she highly enjoys. “You are your best leader when you get the best out of yoursel
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‘Be honest when you don’t have all the answers’
Article 27/07/10 We’re continuing the World Café debate at the LEAP Energy event online, and ask: how far are you in self-leadership and in your leadership journey? Ineke Bussemaker, senior manage
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“Allow yourself to float and experiment”
Article 06/07/10 We’re continuing the World Café debate at the LEAP Energy event online, and ask: how far are you in self-leadership and in your leadership journey? Corrine Petrus, senior manager
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Article 02/07/10 “Self-development means taking a closer look at yourself. It’s so easy to tell a jolly story about renewal and growth. But let’s look at the character traits we all have but
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Koen Gonnissen on effectiveness vs excellence
Article 25/06/10 “What results do you deliver when you work effectively?” Koen asked the audience of the LEAP Energy event at Ernst & Young’s. ‘Profit,’ answered someone.
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LEAP Energy Event at Ernst & Young
Article 16/06/10 The LEAP Energy event at Ernst & Young’s on 15 June left everyone energised. We hope our guests gained new insights and made new connections too. Check our first photo impress
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Koen Gonnissen: mentor, executive coach, energiser
Article 13/06/10 An efficient energy management is the best way to top performance, says Koen Gonnissen. He’s one of the speakers at the LEAP self-leadership event on 15 June – Get energised by the
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Karin Jironet: academic, spiritualist, leader
Article 27/05/10 The LEAP self-leadership event on 15 June – Get energised by the leader in you! - is approaching. Time for some sneak previews of the speakers. First off: Karin Jironet, who
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European employees: ‘management are fraudsters’
Article 14/05/10 More than half of the European employees expect corporate fraud to increase over the next few years. And 42 percent say the senior ranks pose the biggest threat of fraud, reveals Ernst &a
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Activating the future by building ‘Brand Me’
Article 08/05/10 The output generated at the LEAP leadership event in March shows that we need a distinctively different next generation business model if women are to lead the way. ELP’s Brand Me
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Creating the leadership landscape
Article 08/05/10 At the LEAP Leadership event powered by Philips, on 4 March keynote speaker
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BusinessWeek survey: 2010 leadership trends
Article 31/03/10 Positioning for the future, strategic thinking leaders, a bigger role for women and more room for social responsibility. These are some of the leadership trends BusinessWeek has spotted in
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Women Leaders: the hard truth about soft skills
Article 25/03/10 Collaboration, team-building, and inclusiveness are increasingly important as companies break down silos and remove layers of management, reports BusinessWeek.
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Article 08/03/10 As we celebrate this 100th International Women’s Day, LEAP has a special reason to be in a celebrating mood: the
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The Centered Leadership model, expressly for women
Article 29/01/10 Centered leadership is one of the few leadership models specifically intended for women leaders who are aiming for the top. The model for self confident and effective women in charge is b
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Success factors of female leadership
Article 21/12/09 There are many answers to the question why women don’t make it to the top. They’re not ambitious, top management is no part time job, and what have you. Nobody denies there is a problem. S
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Carla Smits-Nusteling: “Working together for better results”
Article 06/11/09 Carla Smits-Nusteling became KPN’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on September 17, 2009. She has worked for KPN since 2000, during the past three years as director of Corporate Control. Carla
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Article 27/10/09 Only slight increase in women on the BoardOn October 22nd, the third Dutch ‘Female Board Index 2009’ was published. This index provides an over
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Article 13/10/09 ‘Virtual networks hold the future’“So this is how women must have felt all these years when attending another male dominated leadership event,” laugh
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Article 08/10/09 It’s not the woman in the fight...but the fight in the woman that counts. If you are convinced that change is needed you should con
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WomeninIT awards for female role models in ICT
Article 07/10/09 On the 3rd of November 2009 WomeninIT will award 3 prices for female role models in ICT...
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Poll: I manage My Money at home...
Article 07/10/09 How do you manage your personal finance?Share your views!
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LEAP Inspiration Event a success!
Article 17/09/09 On Thursday, 10 September, some 250 women came together at Loyens & Loeff to celebrated the launch of LEAP! With speakers, panel discussions and workshops, and a nice glass of wine afterwards. Tak
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Article 09/09/09 A female top manager working for an international company got a new position in the company. To properly prepare for her new function, she asked a Phyleon coach for a few sessions.
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Improved corporate governance with women
Article 04/09/09 Research shows that women in boards improve governance, but not firm performance. The media focused on the bad news (no increased performance). Instead, we should be focusing on the good news (improve
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