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Cool tools
Have you ever tried a new tool
or website and thought, "everyone needs to know about
this." That's how the website
Cool Tools was started, http://
kk.org/cooltools/.
The website began in 2000
as one person's recommendations about neat gadgets, to
a small circle of friends. Today the blog produces short,
positive and useful reviews of
products and resources that are
researched, used and compared
by a number of reviewers. To
find out about a cool tool, you
can search the site or use its
categories. Cool tools "can be
any book, gadget, software,
video, map, hardware, material or website that is tried and
true," according to the blurb on
Cool Tools's home page. Items
can be old or new, "as long as
they are wonderful."
INSIDE
Cubicle hatred . . . . . . . . . . 3
Were cubicles "designed by
Satan"? The Guardian thinks so.
Top tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Three great tips to help you
become a superstar admin
Creating style . . . . . . . . . . . 6
How to deal with abbreviations: for
your corporate style guide.
Whoops! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Mistakes happen. When they do,
take responsibility and move on.
UPDATE
FEBRUARY 2014
Natural leaders
Women have the skills for the new business environment
As the managing director of
Twitter Canada, Kirstine Stewart is at the top of her game.
She says now is the time for
other women to move up as
well.
Stewart says the business
climate has never been better
for women to become leaders
because they inherently possess
the qualities that are needed
for success in the new business
world.
She was speaking to a mostly
female audience at the Women
of Influence luncheon series at
the Metro Convention Centre in
Toronto.
Stewart said "the way we do Kirstine Stewart, managing director of
business has changed… the val- Twitter Canada, says women are the natural
leaders in the new world of business.
ues in business have changed,
and how we're expected to lead
has changed."
are great natural communicators.
In order for businesses to sucShe said it's time for women
ceed today they need to be more
to step up and "act as the natural
collaborative, and more able
leaders we're meant to be."
to build and maintain partner"Those are huge generalizaships. That means leaders have to
tions," she said, "but they're also
change, she said. They have to be
the kinds of things as women
better listeners, better collaborators
we've been saddled with for a
and be more empathetic.
number of years… 'Oh yeah, sure
she's a great leader, but…' 'She's
Natural communicators,
a great listener, or she really does
natural leaders
well in partnerships but…'
"Women just happen to have the
Stewart told women that "this
abilities to listen, to empathize,
is our chance, our turn. Let's take
to take all those inputs from all of
those natural abilities, let's hone
that data that's coming to us and
them, let's make sure that we apdistill it down and make sense of it
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and communicate it back. Women
