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The document discusses embracing personal power and leadership skills, particularly for women. It shares the speaker's career journey from poet to business executive and lessons learned along the way. Key traits for success discussed include confidence, risk tolerance, directness, and knowing when to ask for help. The talk focuses on how to get noticed and advance one's career through building networks, taking risks, and tapping into inner strength. Questions are posed about overcoming barriers like perfectionism and balancing work and personal life.
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- 1. Embracing Your Own Power: A discussion about leadership, self-confidence & women Susan Mernit Women Who Tech October 14, 2008
- 2. What are wegoing to talk about? What is the mindset it takes to be a leader? How do emotional intelligence & conviction for into your professional life? What does it mean to embrace your own power? There are no answers, only observations & sharing...
- 3. This is atalk about experiences & observations…from someone who didn’t start out in corporate life...but did pretty well there.
- 4. My story--Susan MernitCurrent: CEO & Co-founder, People’s Software , 2008 TechStars company; Program manager/consultant, Knight News Challenge , Knight Foundation Formerly, Senior Director/Head of Product, Yahoo! Personals , VP, AOL & Netscape
- 5. In the ‘90s,my career took a fork in the road…. Started as a poet and worked for non profits Became a writer/editor 1992: Writer & Editor, Scholastic, Inc. 1993- Dove into the Net 1998: Director/GM, Parade.com Began running web businesses 2000: VP, Netscape.com 2002: VP, America Online
- 6. Transitions Ended upat Yahoo! after running my own consulting business… So how did I go from poet to business person to VP? And what does that have to do with this talk?
- 7. Susan’s theories abouther success Risk tolerant-- no MBA meant no brain-washing Learn from others, including mentors Super hard working. Tackle tough stuff w/great follow through Natural leader with strong problem solving skills Pragmatic, results-oriented , confident
- 8. Moving from personalstories to general observations How do you get noticed and get the chances to move ahead? What is the balance between team-building and building your brand? What’s the degree of risk that feels right? How does the work part and the inner life part fit together?
- 9. What are thetraits that can help breed success?
- 10. How about these?4 qualities that make you more powerful Confidence Risk tolerance Directness Know when you need help—but don’t take it if you don’t
- 11. "Nine guys, allused to being in charge. I'm absolutely conscious about speaking up more frequently and interrupting people - even though we were taught not to interrupt. Damn it, I'll repeat myself! I'll say it louder! I'll lean forward in my chair.” --Thereseia Gouw Ranzetta, Accel Partners
- 12. “ It’s a can-do spirit with a must-do responsibility that together generate great results.” --PepsiCo chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi
- 13. “ Nothing iscreated without something being destroyed.” -ADM chairman and CEO Pat Woertz
- 14. Questions If you“know” it, how do you do it? Does being powerful make you: unlikeable? a bitch? less feminine? Are we talking about work, or your whole life?
- 15. How about thosevoices in your head? And those trolls? How about failure? How about success ?
- 16. What holds womenback Asking for permission Waiting to be invited Perfectionism, aka competition turned inward Putting yourself last Fear (of course) ‘ Difficultly balancing/juggling
- 17. What practice canhelp you change Everything but juggling, that just sucks…
- 18. Things to thinkabout What would you lose if you went for it this one time? What would you gain? Is there an opportunity cost? What if you waited to do X—how much does timing matter? To do X well, how do you clear time? Who can help you?
- 19. More questions Who’syour kitchen cabinet? Is someone watching your back? Are your expectations realistic? And can you work the learning curve?
- 20. Powerful women arepragmatic women—who grow incrementally and take risks.
- 21. Okay, let’s havea discussion—what do you think tapping into your own strength means? When have you felt it?
- 22. People (friends) whoinspire me Lisa Stone, co-founder, BlogHer Lisa Williams, co-founder, Peoples Software Viviane Tang, Viviane’s Sex Carnival BJ Pheiffer, Napa chef Christine Herron, First Round Capital Mary Hodder, founder, Dabble And lots more…..
- 23. So how isyour power tied to your network?
- 24. How do yougrow your network? Community The web: twitter, blogs, etc. At the office Through your work life Conferences and meet ups
- 25. And what doyou do with it when you get it? (Insert discussion here)
- 26. Thanks.. closing remarks,questions
- 27. Interesting lists (corporate)Fortune Powerful Women Summit, October 2008 http://www.timeinc.net/fortune/conferences/women08/women_home.html CNN Money: 50 Most Powerful women list 2007 http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0709/gallery.women_mostpowerful.fortune/ Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women 2008 http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/27/most-powerful-women-biz-powerwomen08-cz_me_cs_0827women_land.html The New Valley Girls http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/25/news/newsmakers/sellers_valleygirls.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008100614