Women Hold up Half the Sky
Chinese proverb says “women hold up half the sky” but women are still far from holding half of the leadership positions. There is still a huge gender gap when it …
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Border as a Tangible Reality
Borders are a reality. I knew it before I had visited a town on the Syrian border on the south-east of Turkey almost 10 years ago. I knew it but …
Read MoreSleepless but Social in Seattle
Last year, I was at a march with my colleagues at Women for Women’s Human Rights-New Ways and many other women activists in my hometown -Istanbul, Turkey- on the International …
Read MoreThe Guardian: Learning from Servant Leaders
Please note that this post includes spoilers. The Guardian is not a movie about ships, it is the story of an experienced top rescue swimmer (Ben Randall) and his best …
Read More10 Surprising Facts about Phoenix
You are likely to see more people in the middle of the desert on a hiking trail than downtown Phoenix on a Sunday afternoon. It is a place where you …
Read MoreMy Inner Voice Can’t Stop Comparing
Traveling makes you learn and question. Whenever I am outside of Turkey, I can’t stop myself comparing just everything and anything: the way people greet each other, the width of …
Read MoreUSA: A Bad Example for Emerging Democracies?
In Turkey, it is very common to see politicians trying to legitimize their actions -mostly- with some irrelevant examples from Western countries. When I heard President Obama’s State of the …
Read MoreBoundaries and Balance between Work and Family
Last semester, I interviewed a family member, Cemal Ayilmaz, for my leadership style paper. Cemal is married to my aunt for more than 45 years now. He started his career …
Read MoreBe the Leader You Want to See In the World
“Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.” Jim Rohn As a young professional with an entrepreneurial spirit, I had a chance to experience different levels of leadership as John …
Read More“The leader must…..”
Published for the first time in 1989, “On Becoming a Leader” is a classical and well-known leadership book by Warren Bennis. The book is a combination of Bennis’s own insights …
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