Lean In

Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook  has gotten a lot of attention recently for new practice of “Lean-In Circles”. The purpose of these groups of women getting together to talk about when they “leaned in” or didn’t in the work place. A group of woman get together to inspire one another. Considered a new type of club, “Oprah session” and corporate pep talk.

I saw this article on Bloomberg Business week, along with a section of Cosmo. I think it is a great idea to have a book club sort of meeting where you reflect with other woman in the same positions as yourself, and how you could be a better employee. While the norm of more women working in a men’s world, I think it is important for women to reflect on their jobs, and allowing themselves to reflect with other successful women where they could have done better in their job, and where they did do well.

Do you think it is important for woman to be working together to make a stand in a man’s world?

Business week article- http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-05/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-whos-in-your-lean-in-circle#p1

More about “Lean In” Circles. http://gma.yahoo.com/video/gma-sheryl-sandberg-creates-lean-080000753.html

Men’s nail polish hitting the market place.

Men’s nail polish we often think is out of the question, but is starting to show up in kick boxing and martial arts, to cover up banged up nails. Its started with Former Ultimate Fighting Championship star Chuck Liddell, he started to sport a pink polish during fights. He said that it would occasionally help him chat up women, along with seeing polish on famous actors. AS a retired fighter, he started his own cosmetic line, which included polish paint that were named “manly colors” Such as “burnin rubber” and “gasoline”.  His website he says is way over the top, pointing out that it’s just for males. After he saw his sales increasing to males that aren't into fighting and don’t have ruined nails, “just looking for a bit of flare” he softened his marketing approach. The company sells about 400 pens a month.  Female nail polish industry is still at an all time high, but because of the flexibility of social norms, male nail polish is being accepted into the market. In the years past It was thought as less masculine because you were taking care of yourself, but today, men are seeing the importance of taking care of yourself. I think this website proves that we are pressured by celebrities to use certain products. Have you ever been more likely to use a product that you've seen a celebrity use? 

Alpha Nailart official website- http://www.alphanail.com/#starterkit

Alpha nailart Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujPBA2HKPus

Article- http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-14/mens-nail-polish-joins-the-cosmetics-market#r=nav-f-story

What managers do

Leaders are different from managers in many ways. The article made a list of these differences between managers and leaders. I think the most important difference between the two is that managers focuses on the systems and structure of their organization and leaders focuses on the people within the organization. It's good that managers want to make sure their organization is running smoothly but making sure their employees are happy is more important. When the employees are happy, the customers are satisfied. Managers just want to make sure their organization is controlled, and reaches the goals by doing things the right way. As a leader, they want their employees to feel they can be trusted, to excel in their work by giving them confidence and to make sure they do the right thing, for example, business ethics.