Glass ceiling? No! Keep the Stiletto floor

A trendy gender descriptive in corporate America is 'the glass ceiling.' The concept specifically refers to the value of women in the business world. When women achieve success in their professional careers particularly in leadership positions one might hear "there she goes breaking the glass ceiling." Although, you may have to ease drop on conversations or loiter at the water cooler to hear it but you can definitely hear it. Or, you can choose to trust me on this if you have no handy water cooler to hang around.

Trendy is good. Everyone wants a part of trendy. So a good tagline or fun jingle can propel a concept into realty where everyone wants to be an occupant. Thus, the glass ceiling concept has rapidly highlighted women in leadership and increased organizations to desire more women in leadership. Desireability is marketable. The up side is there seems to be more women in leadership. Often as in executive leadership and occupying positions on corporate boards. The downside is sometimes in their quest to climb the corporate ladder women are losing their gender identification or leaving their unique perspective at the conference room door.

Although, mini-skirts do not belong in the boardroom, femininity does. In other words, the strength of an executive team lies in the ability to assess situations or consider new ideas from multiple perspectives. If we abandon who we are at the core then we decrease the views available to see the world and effect change. So ladies, keep your stilettos, bring your female perspectives, and lets leave the ceiling intact. Success comes to those who bring their best game not those trying to conform to an assumed picture of success. You don't have to blend to win. Game on!

To Delete or not to Delete...

The delete key is perhaps the most powerful tool we have at our disposal today. We use it everyday in a variety of ways to manage a variety of situations. When sending an email, writing a document, replying to a text, or programming our favorite TV shows to record, we can hit the delete key and remove or rethink the action.

And now, social media has added a whole new dimension to the power of the delete key. Our connections or public relationships open up the ability to edit our personal lives with just the click of a button. That's right folks you read it here in black and white.
With the introduction of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter we can simply hit a key and delete people from our lives. Click and poof away goes the friend who disagreed with your opinion. Click there goes your connection to a work colleague. How dare they tease you publicly about the quality of your potluck offering after all. Click there goes your latest love interest. You get the picture. Click, click, click.

And that my friends brings us full circle, the question is to delete or not to delete? Once you use the delete key to vanquish a person you may not get a do over to restore the relationship. With great power comes great responsibility or some such philosophical pondering. My humble and unsolicited opinion is to think carefully before you use your all powerful delete key.

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