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		<title>Pearls of Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/06/04/pearls-of-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I entered the Air Force many years ago, I was told that I needed a “Sponsor” to help ensure my rise through the ranks.  My Sponsor should be a higher ranking officer who was upwardly mobile.  My Sponsor should also have a Sponsor who was a well-connected senior ranking officer who is on track for General’s rank.  The trick to the system was picking the right line of Sponsors.   At the very top of the officer ranks there were rivalries and the senior officer in your sponsorship line could instantly fall out of favor or lose status to a rival.  If either of these happened, the entire line of sponsorship would suffer the consequences and once bright careers would be dead in the water.

The whole concept of sponsorship was to work the politics of the merciless up-or-out system.

In addition to a Sponsor, I also needed a Mentor.   Sponsors and Mentors may not be one in the same.  Mine were very different.  The job of your mentor was to teach the ins and outs of doing the job.   My first mentor was my supervisor and his career was in the toilet – but – he knew everything about everything!  He mentored two of us and we got exposed to…well…the stuff you don’t see if you have to worry about politics.  He was a cowboy who took risks and also took the hits as they came.    

I always say that I wish everyone could have the same experiences early in their career as I had in mine.  I learned soooo much!!! 
But this system that I first learned was inherently male.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Formula For Making Coffee</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/05/22/finding-the-formula-for-making-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this story that a woman (Linda) posted on LinkedIn.  It goes along with a lot of my recent posts so I want to share it with you.  This is one of those stories that we like to pass on.  And generally that is what we would do. But I want to take it one (actually several) steps further, as I will explain after the story.  Here is the story: A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. Her grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her granddaughter, she asked, &#8220;Tell me what do you see?&#8221;  &#8220;Carrots, eggs, and coffee,&#8221; she replied.  She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they got soft.  She then asked her to take an egg and break it.  After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. The granddaughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma. The granddaughter then asked. &#8220;What&#8217;s the point, grandmother?&#8221; Her grandmother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity&#8211;boiling water&#8211;but each reacted differently.  The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting.  However after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile.  Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however.  After they were in the boiling water they had changed the water.  &#8220;Which are you?&#8221; she asked her granddaughter. &#8220;When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?&#8221; Great story!   It inspires us to be a coffee bean.  We want to share this story so other women know to be coffee beans. Now if I was your typical blogger this article would be done.  I have done my job &#8211; the article is the right word count and you&#8217;ve had an emotional response. You feel better. The mistake we make as women is that is where we normally end it.  This is as far as we go! This story is about how women can choose to face adversity.  Women have stress endurance &#8211; once we starting talking about the things that are stressing us, we are re-energized we are ready to get back in there.  And many times that is what we do.  We keep going, wanting things to change but are we changing our actions? So my question to grandmother is:  Does granddaughter have the tools and skills to be a coffee bean? Desire and attitude aren&#8217;t enough &#8211; we have to know the action to take to create coffee.  In this story adding a coffee bean to boiling water creates a natural reaction resulting in coffee.  But as we have learned, adding women to the male workplace does not automatically create a chemical reaction that results in a new environment. The change takes deliberate steps and those are what we need to identify.  We need to define the chemical reaction that happens when a coffee bean interacts with boiling water.  That is what I am trying to do. I am always looking for additional advice I can pass on.  Therefore, I look at lots of women&#8217;s &#8220;career&#8221; websites and read a lot of articles and  watch a lot of videos.  I&#8217;ve read and heard a lot of problem statements and learned what Utopia would be like.  The problem is there is no bridge from the State of Current Condition to the State of Utopia.  There isn&#8217;t even a design for it. I&#8217;ve read a lot of articles that make me feel better &#8211; have increased my stress endurance &#8211; but haven&#8217;t solved the problem or suggested action I can take to solve the problem. If I am looking for action, there is one topic on which I have found a lot of actionable advice  - fashion.  (Sidenote:  Are women so stereotyped that &#8221;career&#8221; websites have to fashion bloggers and ads for shoes and clothes?) We have to expand who we are beyond where media is taking us.  The direction they are taking us is good for making money but we have to realize women are being manipulated into NOT advancing.  Think about it.  I am reading a book suggested by my friend Karen who I met because of this website &#8211; &#8220;The Buying Brain &#8211; Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind&#8221; by Dr. A. K. Pradeep.  This is a topic I will expand on later. In the meantime we need to become aware of what is going on.  Women are sold based upon emotional responses and feelings so we are not provided actions.  Without action nothing happens.  The coffee bean does not have a magic wand and turn the water into coffee.  There was 20 minutes of action that created coffee. So, I have an assignment for you.  Every time you read an article, blog post or discussion, think about its purpose, what is the author trying to achieve. 1. Does it make me feel better but give me no action? 2. If there is &#8221;action&#8221; recommended is it primarily attitude based? 3. Is the &#8220;action&#8221; discussed in generalities or are there details and steps &#8211; is the formula laid out?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Year of the Woman; 2013 Year of the Businessman Hero</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/05/17/2012-year-of-the-woman-2013-year-of-the-businessman-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a statement I made in an article :  The successful businessman is the Hero and the driver of our society.

If you are paying attention to the stock market, 2013 is proving this statement is true.

I don’t know what made me do it but on January 20th I turned on CNBC.  That is about the time the stock market really started taking off.  And I don’t know why I thought it but I thought - someone on Wall Street has decided to take over the economy and drive it.  Someone has decided that Washington is dysfunctional, not going to do anything and so, they are taking matters into their own hands to end this recession.  Someone is going out on a limb, with a balls-to-the-wall attitude.  Someone thinks they have nothing to lose that the only other option is stagnation.

In the weeks that followed, that someone ignored all of the bears, nay-sayers, the multitude of critics and doom-and- gloom forecasters.  They were successful – they made something happen.  And as an added bonus the whole federal budget debate in Washington is negated.

With the economy doing well, the fiscal cliff is postponed from May to end of the summer?   Into late fall?  Sorry Republicans your side of the crisis is negated.  Sorry Democrats, your side of the crisis is also negated - there is no need to raise taxes. 

The Wall Street businessman is the Hero who saved our economy.  And his reward is power!! 

Ladies – this is an example we need to follow!!
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		<title>Celebrate the Milestones!</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/05/14/celebrate-the-milestones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Woman In The Room is one year old!!  For me this is a milestone and cause to celebrate!

At work, how do you celebrate milestones and achievements?  Are they subdued?  Do you talk about doing something and then nothing really materializes?  Who is responsible for or takes the lead in planning the celebration?

Thinking back over my career, I’ve had one manager who made sure we celebrated achievements and one who did a pretty good job.   With the rest, ideas withered and died.  Men seem to be generally uncomfortable driving these celebrations.  Historically they have passed the planning to the admin staff.

I’ve always enjoyed putting together something big and fun.  Sometimes women are reluctant to put together these events fearing they will fall into a stereotype and deep into the Pink Zone.  To prevent yourself from becoming the office party planner, pick and choose what you want to celebrate.  Knowing everyone in the office’s birthday and bringing in cake is different from finding the milestones that employees should have pride in achieving.  Instilling pride and recognizing hard work is what a leader does.  And you don’t have to be the manager to lead the celebration.   

Here are a couple of things I have done in the past and after 12 years I will finally admit that it was me who pulled off one surprise event.  Think big, think outside the box and use the event to energize!
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		<title>Are Good Business Women More Like Men?</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/05/09/are-good-business-women-more-like-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started my career there was a common saying about women who went into non-traditional career fields:  “They are looking for a man or they want to be a man.”

Think about the two extreme options this statement presents for women.  Our choices are that we are desperate to get married or that we have a gender identity issue.

Not too long ago the expectation was that once a woman married, she would soon become pregnant, quit working and opt for the life of a housewife.  And many of my fellow female engineers (and STEM) did this.  The top female engineering student at my college graduated a year early so she could get married!  Even though she had her pick of jobs and was offered more money than any other student, she took an intern position with Junior League.  We all questioned why she even got an engineering degree in, let alone do it in 3 years!

Over time I saw most of my female peers leave engineering and live more traditional lives.
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		<title>Why Women Need to Aspire to Great Citizenship</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/05/05/why-women-need-to-aspire-to-great-citizenship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last article, The Woman In the Arena, I quoted an excerpt from Teddy Roosevelt’s “Citizenship In A Republic” speech that he deliver in 1910.  When I wrote the article I looked up the entire speech and found another excerpt that has tremendous meaning for where our culture and economy is today.  I think this excerpt gives women a great sense of peace, purpose and direction. In our current culture we are told that to be “successful” we need to aspire to become part of the plutocracy, to climb to the top of the corporate ladder.  In my article “Should Women Strive For The Top 0.1%?”, I questioned why we should and if there is a certain amount of futility in it.  Teddy Roosevelt, over 100 years ago, drive home my point. Nevertheless,…there must be a basis of material well-being for the individual as for the nation, let us with equal emphasis insist that this material well-being represents nothing but the foundation, and that the foundation, though indispensable, is worthless unless upon it is raised the superstructure of a higher life. That is why I decline to recognize the mere multimillionaire, the man of mere wealth, as an asset of value to any country; and especially as not an asset to my own country. If he has earned or uses his wealth in a way that makes him a real benefit, of real use- and such is often the case- why, then he does become an asset of real worth. But it is the way in which it has been earned or used, and not the mere fact of wealth, that entitles him to the credit. There is need in business, as in most other forms of human activity, of the great guiding intelligences. Their places cannot be supplied by any number of lesser intelligences. It is a good thing that they should have ample recognition, ample reward. But we must not transfer our admiration to the reward instead of to the deed rewarded; and if what should be the reward exists without the service having been rendered, then admiration will only come from those who are mean of soul. The truth is that, after a certain measure of tangible material success or reward has been achieved, the question of increasing it becomes of constantly less importance compared to the other things that can be done in life. It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself. But the man who, having far surpassed the limits of providing for the wants; both of the body and mind, of himself and of those depending upon him, then piles up a great fortune, for the acquisition or retention of which he returns no corresponding benefit to the nation as a whole, should himself be made to feel that, so far from being desirable, he is an unworthy, citizen of the community: that he is to be neither admired nor envied; that his right-thinking fellow countrymen put him low in the scale of citizenship, and leave him to be consoled by the admiration of those whose level of purpose is even lower than his own. This excerpt reminds me of the saying “with great wealth comes great responsibility.”  It gives us a sense of purpose and great wealth a valuable meaning. I have often wondered if the reason women aren’t clamoring to the top the top of the corporate ladder or to the plutocracy is because we find no purpose in it &#8211; when we get to those lofty positions we become too disconnected from the rest of society which is contrary to what women strive for.  For us, this disconnection associates wealth with being low on the scale of citizenship. But what if we take a different perspective – that we need to climb the corporate ladder and the ranks of the plutocracy so we can lead men there too.  If we believe we have a moral obligation to keep our companies and the plutocracy connected to the real world then we must have parity within those arenas.  We must work from the inside to ensure everyone remains good citizens of the community. I know I have sat in many a conference room and listened to men sacrifice their values for either money or to make another entity feel inferior.  I felt an obligation to steer them back to the moral high ground.  This is why we need more women who understand this role in the conference room at all levels of companies. With more women high on the scale of citizenship in all aspects of society, maybe then there will be less men low on the scale.  As women that is our moral responsibility to our communities, our nation and our world. Empowered women are high on the scale of citizenship and lead men to do the same. Don&#8217;t be shy share your thoughts!!]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman In The Arena</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/04/29/the-woman-in-the-arena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to express myself at work.  If I had my druthers, I would start every day blaring a song that fit the mood of the day.  But I was never quite able to put together a large enough sound system.  So I found another method.

I started digging up quotes to fit the mood and plastering them all over.  While I found many, my safety manager brought me this one from Teddy Roosevelt.  It immediately became my favorite because it expressed what the project team and was soon posted in every office.
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		<title>Women Help Companies Improve Collaboration – So What?</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/04/23/women-help-companies-improve-collaboration-so-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the traits women are most credited with is improving collaboration.  We get more people to open up and participate in conversations and problem solving.  The result is a more complete solution to a problem.

Sounds great – in theory! 

The issue many women face is that collaboration isn’t valued.  Collaboration goes against the company’s driving, hard charging, make it happen culture – it is sissy stuff.  In these environments the merit of an idea is based upon how hard the promoter is willing to fight for and drive his solution through.  If you are not willing to fight hard for your idea, then it couldn’t have been a very good one.

Even in an environment where men are less contentious, they may already have their minds made up as to who they aren’t going to listen to, whose ideas are going to be shot down even before they are voiced.  They know who is going to be shut down and shut out of all discussion.  They are very good at enforcing the shut out.

For women getting their ideas heard in these environments is hard enough, let alone getting men to listen to each other and discuss all ideas.

So what’s a woman to do – how can she make a room full of men collaborate?
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		<title>A Woman Personalizes Her Business To Lead</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/04/20/a-woman-personalizes-her-to-business-toleadleadrsonal-expression-of-who-she-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed years that singers have their biggest hits when they sing songs that they pick or write themselves, not what the industry tells them to sing?  They do best when they connect with a song to express who they really are.     

When I think about this Garth Brooks always comes to mind – not quite country and not quite rock.  He didn’t try to fit into a music industry genre - he created his own.  There is something energizing and powerful about that.

Being around a lot of women entrepreneurs lately, I noticed that women start businesses that are an expression of who they are.  Their businesses have a meaning or purpose to them.  Women personally connect with their businesses.
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		<title>How A Woman’s Perspective Changes the World</title>
		<link>http://thewomanintheroom.com/2013/04/16/how-a-womans-perspective-changes-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday morning I was finishing up this article as the news came on about the Boston Marathon terrorist attack.  I decided to re-write it since I talk about a study I did on terrorism several years ago.

Back in 1985 when I was an Air Force 1st Lt. I had a project dumped on me.  Originally it was assigned to someone else but they dropped the ball leaving me 6 weeks to complete a 4 month project.  My assignment – conduct an Energy Vulnerability Assessment to determine the mission impact if a terrorist disrupted the water, electricity and/or natural gas supply to Minot AFB.

In a bit of a panic I called the project’s manager and explained my situation hoping for a time extension.  He told me not to worry, that this was a preliminary idea gathering study and there would be follow-on work.

After talking to him, I had an idea.  What they really wanted to know was if terrorism could impact the base’s mission.  Could terrorism keep Minot AFB’s B-52’s and Minuteman missiles grounded?  That would require taking down the command and control system.
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