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Leadership:

We can't lead with yesterday's leadership skills. While character, intelligence and judgment are still important and essential for good leadership, there are new tools that need to be added to the mix. I believe leadership encompasses the ability to be a storyteller. To be able to assist people in discovering their own identities which will lead to more cooperative productivity is the goal. Today's new leaders understand the importance of work/family integration that members of the younger, global workforce are demanding.

Diversity:

Noticing differences is politically correct these days. Diversity is "in". Its value is being recognized just about everywhere. While it's being courted in the global workplace, many American businesses operate without maximizing the added value of their diversity bottom line. I believe diversity is more than a headcount. It's about cultures and lifestyles counting, too. Since culture is an acquired, learned skill, in the workplace of the 21st century, cultural expertise will give businesses a proper sense and attitude to the world's people and communities.

The Financial Futures of Women:

There's nothing like a financial crisis to change attitudes. Women everywhere are dealing with daunting, if not massive, financial dilemmas for a number of reasons: divorce, downsizing, children, stepchildren, aging or frail parents, career changes-and-ceilings. All of them are attitude-changing situations, and all of them - in some way - are enormously impacted by money. Since 90 percent of women at some point in their lifetime will be solely responsible for the financial needs of their family, every woman needs to get a financial life. Right or wrong, good or bad, money is an immediate measure of what you can do with your financial future.

The Sandwich Generation:

The Sandwich Generation is made up of adults caught in the middle. Adults 45 to 65, most often, facing the dilemma of raising their own children while assisting aging parents, or actively monitoring a frail parent's decline. It's the portrait of the vast majority of American adults. It's no easier for the old to get older than it is for their adult children to deal with the role reversal of becoming the "parenting child". Respecting elder independence, managing aging parent healthcare needs long-distance, transitions with growing and grown children, new families/stepfamilies, divorce, widowhood and second marriages is the goal which is accomplished by integrating all the needs and cooperating in crafting resolutions.

With the Family in Mind:

Part of achieving a healthy state of the family is to know who's responsible for its life-cycle orchestration. With the Family in Mind knows where the responsibility lies. Being a caregiver for those at the beginning of the life cycle - our children - or, for those at the end of the life cycle - our aging parents, is stressful under the very best of circumstances. With the Family in Mind reminds each of us that family - matters. The intent is to look at family dynamics or experience and remind us how much we have in common. I've written several thousand of these commentaries on topics that are the familiar, daily struggles for many families as they juggle the needs of multiple generations.