Women

Mentoring – concept for the future?

EWMD International Conference Basel 2010, September 3-5 With the motto "Keep your eyes on tomorrow and your feet on today", our main focus will be on the hugely diverse topic of mentoring and we will also be presenting a new concept being developed within EWMD based on a three generation approach.

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Telekom wants women in management

What a heavy wind today in Europe, just because the Telekom comes forward and announces that they are going to have the quota for women! And they placed an advertisement in the papers saying all in magenta: We are courageous. The Deutsche Telekom gets more female. With Quota. Most other managers and CEO's in Germany got a ...

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(Deutsch) Korpsgeist und Führungskräfte

KORPSGEIST MACHT BETRIEBSBLIND, so lautet die provokante Headline in der Tageszeitung. Es geht um Kultur in den Chefetagen, um Diversity in Forschungsteams und die Feststellung, dass Vielfalt im Denken mehr Gewinn macht. Das hat eigentlich nichts mit Feminismus zu tun, sondern mit Homogenität von Gruppen und deren Verhalten. Aber zunächst mal die aktuelle Sicht ...

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make a difference be M.A.D. for peace

This morning I heard about the story of M.A.D for peace – or the story of Gill Hicks.  It was an interview in the radio station “Funkhaus Europa” (hear podcast Europäische Gedenktag für die Opfer des Terrors) Gill was severely and permanently injured in the London bombings of July 7, 2005 – She was standing ...

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Nearly 100 year Women’s Day?

Again a "Women's Day" at the 8th March. Again loads of statistics. When did all this begin? Oh - 100 years ago ! A woman named a Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day ... and you can read ...

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