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There is another common problem for female executives: commonly known as men. They tend to show up in a lot of companies, exhibiting varying levels of bad behavior. Another new book, Alpha Male Syndrome by executive coaches Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson (Harvard Business School), says that uncontrolled alpha is out. Just as sheer numbers are allowing female executives to release their stifled femininity, women's increased presence in the workplace appears to be taming the corporate caveman in male colleagues. When they are brought in as consultants, say the authors, newly emboldened employees tell them that autocratic alpha managers...
...NASCAR dads--a slice of the electorate that turns out to be vital to one party's triumph, or either's. This year strategists on both sides are focused on a small subset of females: white women over 55 in the South who were raised as Democrats but tend to be culturally conservative. The group eschews party loyalty in favor of candidates offering practical solutions to problems like education, security and health care and is "very critical," says a top G.O.P. strategist, in the deadlocked Senate races in Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia. To take the Senate, Democrats probably need...
...problem is that small charities tend to fly beneath most donors' radar. So it's the big, branded charities, with their honed message and their fund-raising skills, that attract big contributions. The top 400 get $1 of every $4 raised, a share that is edging higher even as the number of small nonprofits explodes...
...spend it all in one place.) With health-care costs expected to rise about 7%, that means at least 16% of that raise would go to higher premiums or new out-of-pocket expenses. Stated another way, your 4% raise is actually closer to 3%. Of course, employers tend to look at it differently. "It's a phenomenon we call the hidden paycheck because companies have essentially been substituting health-benefit dollars for salary and merit increases," says Ron Fontanetta of the benefits-consulting firm Towers Perrin...
...family of the victim and let them hear him screaming during torture. That usually gets the family's attention and makes them more likely to pay a ransom quickly. It upset the captors' plans, says the U.S. official, that Waddah's family didn't own a phone. "Kidnappers tend to be simpleminded people," the official says. "They have a fixed plan, and when something unexpected happens, they don't know how to deal with...