Most Powerful Women in Business

24. July 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Business News · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

If one is looking for the most powerful women in business, the work has been done by the editors of Fortune magazine. Each year that publication lists not only the most powerful women in business but the highest paid . The magazine also lists the women considered most powerful globally…at least by Fortune’s adjudicators. Some women excel in each of these categories.

While the most powerful women in business are logically the highest paid,this is not 100% applicable..Listed by Fortune as the most powerful women in business, Indra Nooyi is Chairman and CEO of Pepsico. At just 61 years of age, this Indian born woman has achieved great status in the business world as the most powerful woman in business, by steering Pepsico to increased growth and profitability.

By contrast in looking for the most powerful women in business, one learns that Zoe Cruz, listed as 16th in the list of most powerful women in business, is number one in terms of earnings. This very powerful woman in businss presides over Morgan Stanley, a financial giant, and earns an annual salary of $30 million.

In considering the most powerful women in business one must of course look to the international scene as well. The most powerful women in business are involved in every area of business in many countries. Typical is Anne Lauvergeon, Executive Chairman of Areva, a nuclear company in France. In The Netherlands, another of the most powerful women in business is Chairman and CEO of a major… Read the rest

Self-Made Business Women

14. July 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Business News · Tags: , , , , , , ,

In a sense, any woman who has had is or enjoying success in the business world is a self-made business woman. Women who move upward in the management of large companies are self-made business women, as they have, by dint of education, hard work and good management risen to a good position. True, there are aids to self-made business women; there are organizations which offer information, and networking opportunities, but to succeed, self-made business women must apply all their knowledge, be dedicated to their work and usually work harder than their male counterparts to achieve success.

Women who founded and expanded their own businesses are in the truest sense self-made business women. They have managed to develop an idea and a plan, secure financing and start a business on their own. Today there are over 10 million women-owned businesses in the US, and the number is growing rapidly. In every case, the women who own these businesses are self-made business women The businesses owned and operated by.
self-made business women encompass every field, from body products to insurance agencies, to clothing to consulting…every kind of business possible is owned by various self-made business women.

Of course not all self-made business women own their own businesses. One has only to look at published lists of powerful and highly paid women to realize there are many hundreds of self-made business women in the upper levels of corporate power world-wide. From the resumes of women on the rise in business one can… Read the rest

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