Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Seven

Posted on May 4, 2009. Filed under: Business, corporate America, learning to maintain, life, work, work life, work satisfaction, work series | Tags: , , , , , , |

Do something every day to get you closer to your dreams.     I heard Oprah say this once and it struck my core.  I, like many others, left college with these ideologies of what my career was going to be.  Hmmm.  Ten years later, I discovered what it was I was supposed to be doing [...]

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Wired to Care

Posted on April 9, 2009. Filed under: Business, leadership, life, Uncategorized, writing | Tags: , , , |

From 800 CEO read.com…

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Jim Collins, author of Built to Last

Posted on April 6, 2009. Filed under: Business, corporate America, entrepreneurship | Tags: , , , |

on the risks of entrepreneurship, Collins says “My students used to come to me at Stanford and say, “I’d really like to do something on my own, but I’m just not ready to take that much risk. So I took the job with IBM.” And I would say, “You’re not ready for risk? What’s the [...]

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Make Sure Your Employees Trust You–Or Else – Forbes.com

Posted on April 5, 2009. Filed under: Business, corporate America, employee/employer relationship, leadership | Tags: , , , , |

Make Sure Your Employees Trust You–Or Else Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn, 03.23.09, 05:48 PM EDT Your business needs a higher purpose, and you need to convey it through open communication. Otherwise you’re in trouble. How do you keep people trusting you at a time like this? Trust is essential in our lives, and it [...]

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Genuine Leadership

Posted on March 31, 2009. Filed under: Business, corporate America, knowledge workers, leadership | Tags: , , , , , , , |

It could very well be that one of the reasons we are experiencing such a profound economic downturn is that there are so few effective organizational leaders.  In the 22 years spent in corporate America, I have only one experience to reference an example of genuine, authentic leadership.  Even more, I was motivated to earn [...]

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Hello world!

Posted on March 30, 2009. Filed under: Business, life | Tags: , , , |

Who is behind the Flare??? You may remember the scene from the movie, Office Space where Jennifer Aniston is questioned by her boss for the amount of flare she had chosen to wear on her company uniform.  For those who don’t remember, flare was the pins, buttons, stickers and such that the restaurant chose to [...]

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