By Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
If you are a professional woman with children, you have faced the decision about whether to keep working or stay at home. No matter which route you chose to take, most likely the bulk of household responsibilities still fall on your shoulders, and you have begun the inevitable balancing act [...]
‘Reviews’ Category
February 26th, 2010, 6:00 am
On Your Bookshelf: Glass Ceilings & 100-Hour Couples
February 5th, 2010, 6:00 am
Playing for Success: A Conversation with Ellen Leikind
By Kathryn Nilsson Reichert (New York City)
Ellen Leikind is the founder of POKERprimaDIVAS, a company that provides corporate team-building programs that teach women how to play poker and use what they learn at the table to enhance their business skills. She is also a successful marketing executive who spent more than 15 years in the [...]
January 8th, 2010, 6:00 am
On Your Bookshelf: The Go-Getter Girl’s Guide
By Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Don’t let the chick-lit cover fool you. The Go-Getter Girl’s Guide: Get What You Want in Work and Life (and Look Great While You’re at It) may look fluffy, but it is full of hard-nosed advice about how to strategize each step of your career. Author Debra Shigley is a [...]
December 18th, 2009, 6:00 am
Five Top Books for Working Women
By Elizabeth Harrin (London)
Wondering what to put on your holiday gift list? Well, there’s always more space on the bookshelf for a great career-boosting book. Here’s our round-up of the best business books for women at work.
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Marcus Buckingham.
This [...]
October 16th, 2009, 6:00 am
On Your Bookshelf: Encore – Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
By Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, MI)
“The first of 77 million baby boomers turned 60 in 2006, and every day, another 8,000 join them.” A large portion of the American workforce is reaching a stage of life where society considers them to be too old to work, yet lengthening lifespans make them too young to retire. [...]
October 2nd, 2009, 6:00 am
On Your Bookshelf: Outliers – The Story of Success
By Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, MI)
It is an age-old question–what is the secret of success? In Outliers – The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell sets forth his theory that success is a mixture of timing, talent, opportunities, circumstances, intelligence, attitude, cultural background, and hard work.
Supported by case studies and in-depth research, Gladwell uses [...]
August 26th, 2009, 12:00 pm
Confessions of a City Girl: Navigating the Testosterone-laden Financial Industry
What does it mean to be a City Girl today? Can City Girls have it all? Barbara Stcherbatcheff (a.k.a. City Girl), who has worked in banking and derivatives in London for over five years, tackles these questiosn and more in her new book called “Confessions of a City Girl.”
TheGlassHammer.com has 10 signed copies of the book [...]
June 6th, 2008, 9:38 am
What’s your point, Honey? A Documentary About Female Leadership
By: Nicki Gilmour
Six years ago, with the support of the The White House Project, CosmoGirl! launched Project 2024, an initiative to get more young women involved in politics so that we could see a day when just as many women as men run for the highest office in the country – getting beyond gender to [...]
March 21st, 2008, 7:05 am
Book Review: Samantha Power Talks (And Writes)
by Kathryn Nilsson Reichert
A few years ago, I attended a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City to honor women in communications and the author Samantha Power introduced one of the honorees. Someone asked me who she was. I told her that Ms. Power was a professor at Harvard and an author who had won the 2003 [...]
It’s been a while since we last ran a restaurant review in The Glass Hammer. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t been eating! Here, we offer you our three top recommendations for downtown power-lunches in New York City.
Our top three …
Nobu
Bouley
Chanterelle
Check out our reviews after the jump …
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