In life and work, I have been lucky to meet many women. One thing that is striking about them is that fun is the cornerstone of their work and life. If you take fun from life and work, women and girls just lose interest. Add a little amount of excitement and ladies will rock the task.

So, you may ask what does fun mean to women. Good question.

Fun is adventure and social for women. Look around and most baby showers, dance routines on cultural programs and surprise parties at work have women behind them. Even in their families, they are responsible for social calendars.

So, companies and marketers can tap into this and make work and life fun for women.

Clever shopkeepers know this. They will have a salesperson who is warm, friendly and bit talkative. This person would become the perfect shopping companion for women entering the store. Soon the shoppers are asking her suggestion on what they should purchase.

Goto the kids school, if you find a friendly teacher, the ladies (mother and teacher) get together outside of school and become best friends.

The girls living in college dorm form a village with routines, food, clothes and homework. They have fun in all that is involved in a day’s work.

Get a few women involved into cooking and it becomes a adventure…

So, cheers to women who are in it for FUN.

Look under many a powerful woman’s desk and you’ll find a serious pair of heels. Whether they’re on her feet or tucked in a drawer, the shoes’ key attribute is a three-inch spike that, if redirected, could put your eye out.

A pair of black Richard Tyler pumps — pointy-toed, matte leather, very skinny heels — live under the desk of Dana Thayer, senior vice president of marketing for Chelsea Piers, a sports and entertainment complex in Manhattan. She pulls them out for important meetings. “They turn me into this different person,” Ms. Thayer says.

Amy Swift, who runs a women’s business incubator called Ladies Who Launch, opts for a pair of beige snakeskin Jimmy Choos that “have an all-business quality to them.” She calls them “quiet but fierce.”

Continue Reading the article at WSJ: Heelpolitik: The Power of the Stiletto

We all have experienced being bullied in the workplace.

There are many ways this happen. Some of us have experienced it as the following:

1. Being yelled at

2. Being left out

3. Asked to manage what is in our scope of work

There are many other things that look like Bulling – BUT the outcome for each worker is Depression, which has negative impact on all aspects of our lives.

Here is article in NY time Well Blog: When the Bully Sits in the Next Cubicle

This is a good reflection of this issue.

We are immersed, surrounded and inundated with new technologies. Some of these are absolutely life changing, some are pretty interesting, and some, well, let’s just say, the jury’s not back yet on these.

Between all of the websites, blogs, podcasts, videos, widgets, Twitter, You-Tube, other Web2.0 applications, etc., you could easily spend your entire life trying and engaging in these fascinating diversions and never get through them all.

Take the area of business social networking. A few years ago we had some rudimentary applications, then sites like Ryze, Spoke and others came about. LinkedIn has been around for several years, but just recently seems to have achieved critical mass and become a major force in the business social networking arena. Facebook is taking on more of a business feel, too, with employer and location-specific networks. This is not to mention the dozens of other similar sites that spring up almost on a daily basis–too many to ever keep track of, let alone keep up with.

Here’s the key point: It’s fun to try some of these, but then focus on the ones you either find truly valuable or really enjoy. Let all the others go. And never ever forget Linda’s Cardinal Rule of the Internet: The Web is enduring, not endearing. That means those silly photos or offhanded comments on someone’s Facebook wall or other postings made in fun will be catalogued, googled, searched and archived for a long, long time. Potential employers, colleagues, even friends and family members may all have the opportunity to see and hear your comments a long time after you ever intended.

It’s like going to an all you can eat buffet and trying everything available. It all looks good and it probably won’t hurt you to try almost any of it.  You could even mix and match quite a few things and have a good solid meal. But imbibing in everything there just because you can is guaranteed to make you sick.