Principles of Power Leadership Conference featured in Boston Globe
The April 23 Boston Sunday Globe featured two articles highlighting the 2006 Simmons SOM Leadership Conference held April 22 at the World Trade Center in Boston.
“Women advised not to try to ‘do it all’” focused on the panel discussion between Brenda Gaines, former CEO of Diners Club North America, Sherry Lansing, president of the Sherry Lansing Foundation and former chairwoman of Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group, and Blythe McGarvie, president of Leadership for International Finance, LLC and Former CFO of The BIC Group. David Gergen, Editor-at-Large for U.S. News & World Report and Professor of Public Service at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, moderated the panel.
The panelists agreed that it is inappropriate to expect to achieve all of your goals all at once. “The idea of professional women being able to “do it all”-have children, maintain a healthy marriage, and balance a successful career and community obligations-is unrealistic.” Lansing said, “It’s almost impossible, and I don’t know anyone who has it all…Yes, you could do it all, but you will have a nervous breakdown.” Read the full article here: Women Advised Not to Try to ‘Do It All’
The Boston Globe also featured a Question and Answer piece with Sherry Lansing, where she discussed working in a business dominated by males, mentors, and creating her “third chapter” at age 60. Lansing recently formed the Sherry Lansing Foundation, an organization that focuses on cancer research, health, and education.
The writer asked Lansing, What do you want them [business women] to know? “That the world has changed considerably, which means young women today have so many options. They can choose to have a career, not to have a career, or to have both. But you cannot do all of the things you want at the same time. You can do them sequentially. Otherwise, you will be forever pulled and feeling guilty,” said Lansing. View the article here: Former Paramount Chief Raises Curtain on New Act
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