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11/18/2015

Reading a lot about corporate leadership, do morals pay and who comes up on top repeatedly is Starbucks.
Next time you need a caffeine fix don't feel bad, they actually do good stuff:
http://www.starbucks.com/careers/veterans

02/24/2015

What would bring them back to Tech?
"The main thing would be professionalism. Just being able to treat each other with respect would be huge."

Ana Redmond launched into a technology career for an exciting challenge and a chance to change the world. She was well-equipped to succeed too: An ambitious math and science wiz, she could code faster, with fewer errors, than anyone she knew.

02/08/2015

For all NEWCOMERS who face visa and language issues - here are some of the best role models for you.

Immigrants now launch more than a quarter of U.S. businesses. All entrepreneurs should welcome reform that would make it easier for this class of strivers to stay--and succeed.

02/06/2015

If you want to build a ship, do not drum up the people to gather wood... teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Leadership lessons from Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility 1

01/21/2015

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. - Jack Welch

11/30/2014

Among HBS graduate women, only 17 to 25 percent expected their husbands’ careers to take precedence, but they did so 40 percent of the time. Half of the women expected to handle a majority of child care, but nearly three-quarters said they ended up doing so.

Both sexes have ambitious goals for their career and family life, a study finds, but entrenched factors seem to hold many women back.

11/12/2014

Yes, there is a fix - listen to the spouse, give her support AFTER the move when the real relocation challenges start. Such as Career and Life Coaching for your time abroad....

About 30% of all expat assignments end early, often cut short by a trailing spouse’s discontent. Is there a fix?

09/17/2014

Happiness at Work is your pup watching over you.

08/25/2014

1st step in working with a coach is setting GOALS, 2nd is to journal and reflect, and start to focus on what is under your control.

07/09/2014

Great visualization of saying sorry too much.

Sorry, NOT SORRY for asking you to watch this video. After all, why are women always apologizing? Sure, it's polite to say "sorry" sometimes. But for everyth...

06/03/2014

What makes people HAPPY at WORK?
If four of our core needs are met:
* physical
* emotional - feeling valued and appreciated for your contributions
* mental
* spiritual - by doing more of what they do BEST ... by feeling connected to a higher PURPOSE at work.

Excessive demands are leading to burnout everywhere.

05/07/2014

Great news for Trailing Spouses - The Obama administration wants to let nearly 100,000 spouses of foreigners working in high-tech fields to work here as well. The new rule would allow the spouses of those H-1B holders who are in the process of applying for a green card to find work.

04/19/2014

Mindlessness is pervasive. Most people much of the time are mindless. They are simply “not there.” The problem is that when you’re not there you’re not there to know that you’re not there.

The simple process of noticing new things is the key to being there. When we notice new things we come to see the world with the excitement of seeing and experiencing it for the first time, but with the comfort that of our previous life experience brings to the activity.

Business management magazine, blogs, case studies, articles, books, and webinars from Harvard Business Review, addressing today's topics and challenges in business management.

03/17/2014

Want to be perfect? Try this.....

What would it be like to be perfect?It could be eating a healthy balanced meal with very little effort, like this one I had for dinner last night - pre cooked organic vegetables, high quality olive...

02/01/2014

"... failure is about not growing. Not reaching for the things you value. It means you’re not fulfilling your potential.

In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you’re not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn’t need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented."

How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. "If you imagine less, less will b

01/14/2014

Went to an amazing luncheon sponsored by this group - if you are looking for true networking, check them out.

100 Committed Businesswomen Women Business Owners, Corporate Executives, Business Managers, Consultants... Are you looking for a way to grow your business and a group of likeminded women in business t

12/13/2013

New research why it makes so much sense to focus on your STRENGTHS:
We grow the most new synapses in those areas of our brain where we have the most pre-existing synapses. Our strengths, therefore, are our true areas of opportunity for growth.

A do-it-yourself guide to building a strengths-based performance management system.

11/18/2013

"When your living conditions are stable, peaceful, and prosperous—no civil wars raging in your streets, no mass hunger, no epidemic disease, no vexation from poverty—making yourself miserable is a craft all its own, requiring imagination, vision, and ingenuity."

How to succeed at self-sabotage.