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Has the Slap Down Replaced Reason? Are We Getting Meaner by the Day?

Posted on February 9, 2024 by admin

I spent my academic career teaching students how to effectively communicate, reason and persuade. Lately, I’ve wondered whether those skills are becoming extinct. Back in 2011, I developed a book proposal about an emerging mean streak in our culture. Recently, … Continue reading →

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The Memo Every Woman Still Keeps in Her Desk

Posted on July 25, 2022 by admin

A few months ago, the Harvard Business Review informed me that one of my publications with them, “The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk,” had been selected to be among 30 for inclusion in their now published centennial book, … Continue reading →

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A Lesson From The Academy Awards

Posted on April 3, 2022 by admin

At the recent Academy Awards ceremony, what might have kept Will Smith from slapping Chris Rock? Perhaps you’ve wondered. I keep coming back to the importance of having a repertoire of comebacks.  At Arianna Huffington’s online site Thrive Global, I published “Did You Really … Continue reading →

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Violence Against Women – The Murder of Ashling Murphy

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

The broad daylight murder of Ashling Murphy, 23-year-old beloved primary school teacher, jogging in her hometown of Tullamore, Co. Offaly sent shock waves through the entire country of Ireland and beyond. It was yet another wake-up call that violence against … Continue reading →

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What Women Take from Peng Shuai’s Denial – We’re Damned If We Do and Damned If We Don’t

Posted on December 20, 2021 by admin

Tennis star Peng Shuai’s denial of having written a social media sexual assault accusation is a reminder to women – Chinese or not: When it comes to sexual assault, you’re damned if you do speak up and damned if you … Continue reading →

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To Like or Not to, Like

Posted on October 31, 2021 by admin

I read an article today from the Women’s Media Center entitled, “How Hating the Word ‘Like’ Hurts Young Women.” It’s an intelligently written article positing that frequent use of ‘like’ in speech, particularly by young women, should not be interpreted … Continue reading →

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Haven’t Read ‘Shadow Campus’ Yet?

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

If not, here’s your chance. Amazon reduced it for now to $5.05! Still looking for a summer crime mystery read? How about one that Forbes described as a “masterful” and “fast-paced” debut? A young professor on the eve of tenure … Continue reading →

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Whose Burden is it? Cleaning up Bias in Academia

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

When the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill put New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones essentially through the wringer in what should have been a slam-dunk tenure decision, they broke a promise to her as an incoming holder of an endowed chair … Continue reading →

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Courage vs. Subservience – Liz Cheney and Elise Stefanik

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Representative Liz Cheney made a choice yesterday and she did it alone. There was no pandering to power, no one standing by her side at the podium. She took what I wrote about in my Harvard Business Review article “Courage … Continue reading →

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Visit My New Instagram Art

Posted on April 1, 2021 by admin

I decided to start Instagram art and author accounts. The art one is well underway. The writing one is still in early development. Stop by the art page if you like or follow. Here are two paintings, “Revisiting Van Gogh” … Continue reading →

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