Posts Tagged ‘business’
The Power of Purpose: Why It’s the Key to Effective Leaders and to Retaining Women in Leadership
Issue 94— May 20, 2019 Tis the season for commencement speeches. We all remember those with themes or phrases that stick in our minds. Wear sunscreen. We are the wolves. Find your purpose. I venture to say that last theme has been used in more commencement speeches than any other. But cliché though it may be, it’s…
Read MoreHow Technology Brings Chaos and Opportunity for Women to Disrupt, Innovate, Create
Issue 91 — April 21, 2019 I remember how taken I was when I read science historian James Gleick’s 1995 article “Just a Damn Minute.” He wrote there and in award-winning books such as Chaos how technology was making our world spin faster and faster, so that despite technology’s intent to save time and make life easier, instead we’re…
Read More5 Really Bad Strategic Mistakes Nonprofit Leaders Often Make
Issue 72 — October 28, 2018 Last week I was privileged to keynote the annual conference of Arizona State University’s Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation by being interviewed by the Center’s Executive Director Robert Ashcraft. (A shout out here to the Center’s Nicole Anderson who organized the conference masterfully. If I may take a point of…
Read MorePassion to Action: 5 Ways to Know if You’re an Entrepreneur
Issue 60 — August 6, 2018 Do you dream of starting your own business? You’re not alone, whether you are a woman contemplating leaving salaried employment you don’t love for the uncertainty of entrepreneurship, you want your own business so you can control your schedule to take care of family obligations, or you simply embrace the challenge of…
Read MoreWhat Do You Do With One Wheel?
Issue 59 — July 30,2018 On an Amazon Prime day whim, I bought a box of LEGOs on sale and created an exercise using them for the “Your Power Journey” workshop I led last weekend at the Omega Institute. Participants in the “Your Power Journey” workshop showing their power TO in the beautiful setting of the Omega…
Read MoreThe Fabric Of Our Lives
I grew up in rags. No, I don’t mean I lacked proper clothes. As I’ve confessed in this column before, I’ve always been something of a fashion diva. Now you’ll know why. I’m referring to the clothing business, where “rag” or the Yiddish word for it, “shmata,” is often used as a humorous slang description. My father…
Read MoreDon’t Be So Darn Nice: Why Talking About the Hard Stuff Is Even More Important Than You Thought
Issue 54 — June 15, 2018 Riffing on Dante, my friend Jill and I used to speculate on what our personal levels of hell would be. Pervasive niceness was her deepest level of hellaciousness. She described it as a place where tough or controversial issues were never discussed and she would have to be blandly agreeable at all…
Read MoreSamantha Bee, Kate Spade, Bill Clinton, and Full Frontal Gender Bilingual Communication
Issue 53 — June 9, 2018 I’ve been toting my Kate Spade bag since her untimely death by suicide this week. I can’t tell you why it touched me so deeply but I can’t stop thinking about how she brought so much light, color, and beauty to the world but apparently didn’t always receive it herself. And now,…
Read MoreMeghan’s Veil
Meghan Markle might never become Queen of England, but she rules the world through the power of the symbols she chose for her wedding. Literally, every minute act and every tangible article in any royal wedding is imbued with symbolic meaning whether intended or not. But there is no question that this bride and groom thought…
Read MoreHow to know the future
Issue 49 — May 11, 2018 I attended “The Future of Everything” conference this week. Hosted by The Wall Street Journal, it featured an array of speakers as sparkling as Sarah Jessica Parker’s shoes, in short panels that provided just enough fodder to get your brain synapses firing like popcorn. Futuristic speculations are as addictive as popcorn to me,…
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