At the recent PDF Conference in New York, Arianna Huffington faced the audience and said, "I want you to listen to me." What she meant was, stop multi-tasking for a second. Stop Twittering, blogging, IM-ing, catching up on email, or reading Gawker and listen. We all hear, we're adept at hearing ...

As any Democrat knows, "Working Families" are a staple of any good Dem's rhetoric. The concept of "helping America's working families" is so often used, it loses its power as a concept. But the "working women" campaign the Obamas are running this week is new. The title of Obama's theme ...

Women's social networks are famous for being dense. We talk amongst ourselves, online and offline. Before women entered the workforce, their social networks were almost entirely female. Even still women's networks are more female than male, and contain fewer weak ties (See Ronald Burt). Their networks are less rich in those ...

I just wrote about this in Huffington Post. I study leadership- and it's a skill as well as an inherent quality. But what are the leadership qualities a president needs to possess? Are they similar to those a CEO needs? A military leader's suite of skills? A parent's, bringing along ...

This site is about to undergo major changes as I formally launch my new career as an organizational development consultant and leadership scholar-in-training. In the meantime, I want to crow about my husband, Nicco Mele!! Nicco is going to be a fellow this fall at Harvard's Institute of Politics. This is ...

I am beyond excited to see SATC, as is almost everyone I know. I prepared by watching season 2 all over again (it's my favorite). In a discussion among some very smart women I know, one theme emerged: young women, we fickle and elusive voting targets, are more excited about ...

Go BlogHer!! "In an exclusive on-camera interview with BlogHer, Sen. Obama (D-IL) answers questions about the economy, Iraq, health care and the environment -- including a health-care screening process for every veteran and support for their spouses and families, health insurance coverage for birth control to avoid unwanted pregnancies, and ...

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Among McCain's pro-choice women supporters, 50% don't know his positions and an additional 25% assume his views are in line with their own! Catherine Morgan asked: "Is John McCain a Pro-Choice Republican? Would you vote for him if he was? There seems to be a lot of confusion over whether ...

Dave Winer is on to something, which he mentions in this podcast. I first got the idea from my colleague Matt Wilson at the Kennedy School, and I can't stop thinking about it. Obama's real power to change this country doesn't end on Election Day: it begins on Election Day. Citizenry ...