The Editor's Blog

When you meet Sam's Club CEO Roz Brewer, she greets you with a warm smile. Always wearing something elegant and professional but never stuffy, she's the kind of successful woman I admire most. Not for her outfit or even her demeanor, but because she is genuine, sharp, compassionate and courageous.

We’re hoping for a happy New Year for women in business, as 2012 kicks off with a record number of female CEOs at the nation’s top 500 public companies. This week, IBM's Virginia Rommety moves into her new role as CEO, as does Mylan Inc.'s new CEO Heather Bresch.

In all – the year begins with 18 female CEOs, beating the previous record of 16 in 2011.

PINK salutes the Top Women in Sustainability while doing our part to conduct business in ways that restore and enrich the environment – rather than deplete it.

Now totally digital, PINK limits the use of paper, saving thousands of trees. We install energy saving lights at the office and we telecommute part of the week.

It may be an anti-drug campaign, but it ought to be a moniker for career women, too.

At a recent function, when I asked the CFO of a Fortune 100 how she was doing, she said, "I'm exhausted. I can't seem to say 'no.'" It's a common affliction among successful women. In our zeal to help and please others, promote our companies and get everything done, when requests come in, it seems better to say yes.’

As workplace experts, PINK is often interviewed on topics like this for other media outlets. Just recently we were asked to share tips on what to do during your job interview. Also PINK recently hired a new head of finance. I was very surprised that nearly every job candidate made obvious mistakes! So here are five very basic things to remember when you go to your next job interview.

“We must be resilient to be successful.” That’s what Penny McIntyre, Newell Rubbermaid’s head of the nearly $2 billion office products division, told the company women's network today.

Here are the Top 10 Success Secrets from PINK's sold-out "Spring into Ownership" event, sponsored by Porsche, Microsoft, Southern Company, FedEx, Jackson Lewis and B98.5. CNN's Director of Network Booking, Maria Ebrahimji asks the questions to women owners of multi-million businesses who flew in from across the USA to be on the PINK panel.

Success secrets:

1. "Ask for help. Ask for what you want." – McGhee Williams-Ossee, CEO, owner, Burrell Communications Group; a $200 Million ad agency.

My son Alden called me at work one morning recently. He wanted to know my thoughts about the word "mankind" and whether it's OK to use the term in an essay. So I blurted out, "Not if you don't want to exclude more than half of the human race!" Only then did I learn I was on the speaker-phone with other students in the principal's office listening. So I asked the boys in the room the question: "Would you feel left out if you were referred to as part of 'womankind?'" The answer was, of course, yes.