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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business

Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography. Request an interview.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

As one woman told us, “When I went down to Atlanta to run that market for the company, the president of the division said, ‘You are going to be fired within a year, because no one has been able to make Atlanta successful.’ ” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs.

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Iceland Ponders Radical Money Plan Including Elimination of Fractional Reserve Lending and Deposit Insurance

MishTalk

The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled "A better monetary system for Iceland". Few indeed have suggested leaving the decision to the market.