Leadership Tuesdays Update: Deborah Alderson and Sara Blakley

Well, it's been two weeks since I updated this blog, but I wanted to let you all know who has been featured in the WOMEN AT LIBERTY's Leadership Tuesdays segments.  (See below.)  By the way, I am working on a new blog on integrity that should be posted soon.  Stay tuned.  Meanwhile check out these Leadership Tuesdays videos featuring Deborah Alderson, corporate executive from defense contractor SAIC, and Sara Blakley, entrepreneur and founder of Spanx, Inc.

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Deborah H. Alderson is the president of SAIC's Defense Solutions Group, headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Ms. Alderson manages a team of more than 12,500 professionals.  In this interview with Beverly Mowery, Vice President of Publications for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Ms. Alderson talks about the characteristics that are important to her as a leader, what lessons she learned from a situation she considered her greatest failure, and more. 

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Colleen DeBaise, from The Wall Street Journal, speaks with Sara Blakley, entrepreneur and founder of Spanx, Inc. Unhappy with how her "butt" looked in white pants, Sara invented a new type of undergarment that took away panty lines and gave a smoothing effect.  In the video …

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A Legacy of Public Good...Mrs. Betty Ford (1918-2011)  

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Leadership Tuesdays!

Leadership Tuesdays’ goal is to provide a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders.

In the very first introduction to Leadership Tuesdays, a quote from the book, Becoming A Leader (2009), by Myles Monroe was used to illustrate one of the key premises of this program:   Everyone has the potential to lead.  Dr. Munroe stated that, “there is a leader in everyone waiting to serve his or her generation." This quote helps to dispel the myth that only certain people can be leaders and supports the thinking that people must discover and cultivate their innate leadership abilities and styles. 

 Although we cannot all be leaders at the same time, at any given moment in life we may be called upon to lead. Further, as Vashti McKenzie states in this short inspirational message, we must examine ourselves for self-sabotage and excuses.  Next, …

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Leadership Tuesdays: Desire Over Fear...Sheryl Sandberg

“Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face—and there will be barriers—be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold. I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try." 
--Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook

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Leadership Tuesdays!

Leadership Tuesdays’ goal is to provide a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders.

Welcome back!  We are continuing our inaugural season of Leadership Tuesdays with an article featuring Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, written by Ken Auletta in The New Yorker entitled, “A Woman’s Place:  Can Sheryl Sandberg upend Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture?”

The article, which is a very good read by the way, discusses not only Sheryl Sandberg’s history and her ascent to her current position at Facebook, but it also takes a look at her philosophy on women excelling in the workplace and the type of activities she is involved in to promote the next generation of women leaders. In addition, Ken Auletta does a wonderful job of presenting other points of view, sometimes opposing, on how…

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2011 WOMEN HISTORY MAKERS-DC, MD, & VA

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