Leadership
The Iron Lady: Have things really changed?
Dear readers in the US and Europe (specially the UK), for the next few moments please let’s not worry about what our political views may be about Margaret Thatcher, whether we like or dislike her or if we agreed then or now with her politics, but let’s look at Margaret as a female. In the…
Read MoreThe Democratization of Leadership
I have rarely been as excited as I am this very moment about all the changes taking place in corporations and enterprises of all sizes around the world. By that I mean the “ Democratization of Leadership”. What inspired me to write ProVoke was to provoke my readers globally about the fact that disruption is…
Read MoreAn Innovation Website Alone Does Not Make a Company Innovative
In the last 2 weeks I have been fortunate enough to be invited by a number of midsize and large enterprises to present ProVoke and start the dialog of Disruption to Innovation…. And more importantly launching the Culture of Disruption (CofD) as the necessary first step. CofD is a central premise of ProVoke and how…
Read MoreIntimidation…. Sign of strength or insecurity???
Over the last few months in my lectures at universities and in working with entrepreneurs either as board member, advisor or mentor, we have often discussed the topic of intimidation. In this context, I am referring to behavior exhibited by one party specifically in order to take control, force the opposing view/person to back down,…
Read MoreGet yourself out of your way…
I think it is human psychology to need to find a reason/person to justify why we have not reached our goals. Often we will say things like ‘my manager did not support my promotion’, or ‘I didn’t become an entrepreneur because I did not have the financial support’, or ‘ I couldn’t do the things…
Read MoreWhy aren’t there more women entrepreneurs?
Women own the majority of small businesses around the world. Women are talented, hard working, educated, have many of the qualities necessary for leadership. Yet somehow the percentage of women entrepreneurs running successful startups runs in the single digits. The businesses women own tend to be low-impact and make up perhaps 5% of GDP: home-based…
Read MoreWhy do women shy away from being investors?
We have a huge problem folks… We simply don’t have enough women investors in hi-tech and startups as a whole around the globe. Why not? Let me start off by saying that ‘women’ are the larger demographic ‘purchasers’ globally. Women are constantly making purchase decisions and very involved in making global ‘buy’ decisions. I was…
Read MoreI’m Listening…Tell me Your Disruption
November began at a breakneck pace. My latest book, Provoke, released, and the Provoke trailer debuted. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can go to the Linda Bernardi YouTube channel and check out both versions- rock or techno. I’ve also been working behind the scenes, with my team on the marketing campaign as well…
Read MoreShould women be promoted because they’re women?
Over the last decade, I have had the privilege of mentoring about 15 women and about five men in entrepreneurship. It’s a fulfilling activity; I’m a big believer in mentoring, as my mentors changed my life. I like to pay it forward. However, with my female mentees I am often faced with anxiety when one…
Read MoreWhat would Steve Do?
In writing Provoke, I drew on Apple and Steve Jobs repeatedly to illustrate the importance of disruption leading to innovation and excellence. Apple is the gold standard for what a company could do if it allowed itself the permission to actively disrupt the status quo. Under the late Jobs, Apple disrupted the music industry with…
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