Great advice from Carolyn Buck Luce, Global Life Science Sector Leader at Ernst & Young, and Co-Founder of the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force. Carolyn is the daughter-in-law of Bethine Church and spoke to City Club of Boise a year ago. Some highlights of the article:
She recommends ten-year planning as a way to manage that life. “Every ten years, I go over what I want to learn in the next ten, and the critical experiences I want to have. I ask, ‘how do I live the next chapter as fully as I can?’” In the next ten years, she said, she hopes to become known as an “organizational shaman.” She explained, “I would like to learn more about what happens in people’s heads, soul, spirit, and energy, and how I can help leaders be more courageous by calling on all their gifts.”
“My advice for young women is to build your network before you need it,” Buck Luce said. “Women do not have the internal or external networks they need to be successful. You have to be able to mobilize information, relationships, people, attitudes, emotions, inspiration – and you can’t command that. You have to have broad networks before you need them.”
As women become more senior in their organizations, she advised, it’s important not to shy away from politics. “It’s not a meritocracy, and the more senior you are, the less it is. You need to be clear about what you want and why you want it, let other people know, and elicit their support and build a campaign.” The full article is at:
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