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Leadership

Get Fierce Or Get Ready To Fail

Can a single conversation ruin your business?  Or end your marriage? Author and leadership expert Susan Scott says, “While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a career, a company, a relationship or a life – any conversation can.” Scott, the author of Fierce Conversations, writes,.

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The Male Factor: The Secret Beliefs that Women Miss

Why do people of the opposite sex act so weird at work? Anyone who works in an environment where their sex is in the minority knows that men and women are different.  Actually, anyone who’s ever gone to school, ridden a bus, dated, read a Facebook page, been married,.

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Free Webinar Series – Growing Your Small Business (without giving up your life) -Starts June 24

Please join me for a free webinar series:Growing Your Business (without giving up your life) Starting JUNE 24 We’ll cover: Networking – How to generate leads,  when you don’t have time to get out into the community Motivation- How to get your employees engaged, when you can’t afford raises.

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Why Being A Great Boss And A Great Parent Aren’t As Different As We Think

When we think about great parents, we tend to use words like loving, nurturing and kind.  Yet when describing high performing bosses, we’re more likely to talk about being decisive, tough and directive. Parenting, especially mothering, is viewed as soft and sweet, while leadership is firm and aggressive.  Yet.

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Creating Systems for Success, Not to Impress

Can you give a great presentation if you have a messy office? Can you be a fabulous parent with laundry strewn all over the house? On the one hand, it might seem like you’re too busy doing your “job” to worry about little details like filing or cleaning out.

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Why We're Weirded-Out by the "L Word"

People are weird about love. Everybody wants to be loved, but nobody wants to talk about it. We’ll tell a stranger how much we love our iPod.  Yet we find it difficult to look into the eyes of our parent, spouse or child and proclaim the same thing. One.

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Why We’re Weirded-Out by the “L Word”

People are weird about love. Everybody wants to be loved, but nobody wants to talk about it. We’ll tell a stranger how much we love our iPod.  Yet we find it difficult to look into the eyes of our parent, spouse or child and proclaim the same thing. One.

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Undercover Boss Reveals More About the Boss than the Workers

What do employees say and do when their boss isn’t watching? Organizations say they want to know what goes on behind the scenes.  But more often than not, senior leaders, particularly those at the top of the corporate food chain, don’t spend enough time in the trenches to get an.

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The Mancession: The Numbers Reveal A New Normal

It’s 3:30 on a Thursday afternoon, and instead of a gaggle of mothers waiting outside the elementary school to walk the kiddies home, there’s a herd of dads in Bermuda shorts who look a little embarrassed to be there. It’s being called the Mancession. Men have lost three out.

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How To Get What You Want Without Alienating Others

“At a certain point it gets to be about me, right?” He was a seasoned professional who’d been in business for years, and when he asked me this question near the end of a workshop I was giving, I knew that he was struggling. In his way of thinking,.

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