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Thank you for being a
valuable member of PBWC. We appreciate your patronage and look forward to
sharing the new year with you.
In 2002, we hope to
remember the past and move forward together. We are eagerly anticipating
our 13th Annual Conference in May, "Change: Embrace the
Challenge".
From all of us here at
PBWC, Happy New Year.
Janet Lamkin
PBWC President
In
this issue of the PBWC Communiqué
Save
Money and Register Now for the 13th Annual PBWC Conference
Save money and Register now for the 13th Annual Professional Business Women of California Conference, May 29, 2002 in San Francisco at the Moscone Center.
This year we celebrate "Change: Embrace the Challenge" and promise one of the best one-day experiences you may ever attend. Expect world-class speakers, life-changing workshops, career enhancing networking and, as always, about 5,000 women sharing one grand time.
Early bird registration closes January 31, 2002.
To register,
go to www.pbwc.org
Announcing
our Co-Chair and Sponsors for the 2002 PBWC Conference
We
are honored to announce our 2002 PBWC Conference Co-Chair:
We would also like to
welcome our:
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Strategic Sponsors:
- ABC7
- Accenture
- ChevronTexaco
- State Farm Insurance
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Patron Sponsors:
- Adaptec
- California State
Automobile Association
- Genentech, Inc.
- Hewlett Packard
- Hyundai
- Merrill Lynch
- Mid Peninsula Bank
- Sybase, Inc.
- The New York Stock
Exchange
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Young Women's Champion
Sponsor
PBWC
Partners with SF Chamber in January Event
Everyday Leadership:
Living Your Values and Inspiring Change as Tempered Radicals
Presented by Professional
BusinessWomen of California and The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
When:
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Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 7 - 9 a.m. |
Where:
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Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA
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Program Description:
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Nearly all of us feel at odds with the organization we work for
at one time or another. Managers who are also parents struggle to
succeed - and be there for their families - in organizations that
demand all-or-nothing commitment. Female executives ally themselves
with their firm's top brass while working to advance gender equity
in the mostly male executive suite. Environmentally conscious
managers seek to act their values and climb the corporate ladder in
firms more concerned with profits than pollution.
Based on her new book, Tempered Radicals: How People Use
Difference to Inspire Change at Work, Debra Meyerson will show how
people who act on personal values that differ from the dominant
culture can become crucial sources of learning, leadership, and
change in organizations. In this talk, she describes a spectrum of
strategies - from very quiet and personal to more strident and
public - that individuals use to act on their values and views
without jeopardizing their hard won careers.
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Speaker Bio:
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Debra Meyerson is Visiting Professor at Stanford's Graduate
School of Business and School of Engineering and Professor of
Management at the Simmons Graduate School of Management in Boston.
She is author of Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to
Inspire Change at Work (Harvard Business School Press, 2001).
She is also co-author of the widely read Harvard Business
Review articles, "A Modest Manifesto for Shattering the
Glass Ceiling"(2000) and author of "Radical Change, the
Quiet Way"(2001) as well as more than 30 scholarly articles and
book chapters. She was recently nominated as one of the 75 most
influential women in business by the San Francisco Business Times
and has been recently featured in a number of publications for her
research (e.g. San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, New
York Times, Business Week, San Jose Mercury News).
Meyerson lives in Northern California with her husband and three
children.
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Registration Information:
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The cost to attend is $25 for Chamber & PBWC members and $30
for prospective members, if paid by Jan. 7.
$5 additional after Jan. 7 and at the door.
- Register online at surveylinkinsertbeg20--->http://www.sfchamber.com<---surveylinkinsertend
(click on "Calendar").
- Register by sending a check to:
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Attn: Women in Business Roundtable
235 Montgomery Street, 12th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
- e-mail mmercer@sfchamber.com
or
fax (415-392-0485) credit card information
(name of
cardholder, card number, expiration date and billing zip code).
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Excerpts
from Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work
Debra Meyerson
Copyright:
Pamela J, 2001 |
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When
you arrive at work do you check your personal values
at the door? Do you pretend to be like everyone else
just to "fit in"? Or do you wield your difference like
a weapon and find you never get the promotion or the
respect you deserve? Does the thought of coming to work
make your stomach hurt and your boss' head ache?
There
is a perpetual tug-of-war that employees feel when it
comes to fitting in to the corporate culture versus
expressing personal needs and preferences. At first
pass, it may be simpler to assimilate, aggressively
act out, or leave. However, there is a viable-and ultimately
satisfying-alternative. Leveraging tension between expressing
our "whole selves" and building careers in companies
that leave little room for differences can pave the
way for learning, leadership, and positive change in
organizations.
To
download more excerpts and an interview with Debra Meyerson
click
here.
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January
2002 Communique