Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.