Newsroom: Top Companies For Women Execs

The National Association for Female Executives has named its Top 50 companies for executive women. Top 10: Bank of America, Cisco, General Mills, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, The New York Times Company, Procter & Gamble, Prudential Financial and State Farm Insurance. Read the full list and why they were picked.

Newsroom: Recognize This Person?

“If you’re the boss, it’d do you some good to assume you are clueless, insensitive, and selfish– especially if you wield a lot of power or your people are performing especially well,” writes Good Boss, Bad Boss, Robert Sutton. He says humans “are often blind to our weaknesses and giving people power amplifies this tendency: We become more focused on our needs and wants, less focused on others, and act like the rules apply to others and not us.”

Newsroom: Having Second Thoughts About Your Facebook Friends?

Are you reconsidering your friends on Facebook? With more and more employers using social media sites like Facebook to screen candidates, women are more likely than men to unfriend their digital buddy lists, this story says.  A Pew study found women and younger users tend to streamline the most: 67% of women with social network profiles have unfriended someone, compared to 58% of men. Woman have also curtailed friend access more so than men at about the same 9% difference. Of note: just 8% of women regret something they’d posted on Facebook, compared to 15% of men.

Five Questions For: Carol Brown

Carol Brown is the Recruitment Manager for Best Buy Mobile and has 15 years experience in human resources. She considers herself a champion of workplace diversity. We asked her some frequently-asked questions from job seekers.

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Newsroom: Having Women at the Top Pays Off

Does your company have plenty of women board members? Having women there is good for business, writes Dana Theus. A 2011 Catalyst study found companies with a high percentage of women board members did better than those with none by an 84% return on sales, 60% return on invested capital and 46% return on equity. “It means… we have become a critical ingredient for economic success,” Theus says.

Book Bag: Are You a Helicopter Mom?

Dena Higley worked hard to have it all: a daytime drama writing career, long marriage and four great kids. In Momaholic: Crazy Confessions of a Helicopter Parent (Thomas Nelson) Higley says it all fell apart, causing her to look at what she was doing right — and wrong. We talked to her.

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