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| Re my June 7 post on travel, my friend and business partner, Carl Stratton, points out that the leaders of our commercial airlines are absolutely crazy to not be dramatically improving the passenger experience in the face of the air taxi business that is about to explode into a viable alternative to commercial air travel. Probably not certifiably crazy, but something's whack. Are they blind, making a poor business judgement that the competitive threat is not real, or perhaps too strapped for money or too regulated to effect any real changes? Who knows? But I'd be shorting airline stocks now. |
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| From no less than Mahatma Gandhi. Check out 1% for the Planet (www.onepercentfortheplanet.org), a non-profit organized in 2001 by Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, and Craig Mathews, owner of Blue Ribbon Flies. This group asks its members to contribute 1% of sales to one or more of thousands of approved non-profit environmental organizations approved. At last count, the group had 473 members and was contributing over $12 million annually. Most of the heavyweight companies haven't joined yet, but you can bet they will over time. Wall Street will have to embrace it, but Wall Street loves business and, as environementalist David Brower said, "There is no business to be done on a dead planet." |
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Maura O'Neill, a professor at my alma mater, U.C. Berkeley, wrote an article in the February 26, 2007 issue of Forbes, making the points that only 2% of the 1,000 largest public companies are run by women, and a global survey conducted in the late 1990s suggests that 30% more men than women believe it's hard work that determines success in a corporate hierarchy. According to the survey, women believe getting to the top depends more on good luck and connections than hard work. O'Neill's concern, of course, is that when women believe this, their ability to land the top job becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I believe our world in general, including its corporate component, needs more feminine energy in its leadership ranks. An energy that uses its intuition and creativity more, logic and so-called facts less, its empathy-based communication more, and its brawn less. How do we start to create a world where female influence is as powerful as it deserves? |
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