Thursday, July 28, 2011

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.

Leadership Tuesdays
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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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