For more tips on effective communication, download my free guide, 7 Secrets To Highly Effective Communications When reflecting on your recent communications, have you experienced any of the following? There was disconnect between what you said you wanted from your team and what they delivered. You were denied a promotion that you deserved (and requested). Your…
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This article was originally featured on Business Woman Media – The website for ambitious women who seriously want to succeed in business and the corporate world. Some business leaders seem to have a gift for continually generating creative ideas. Consider Sara Blakely, whose innovative, original Spanx product later spawned dozens of other products for her company (not…
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Gratitude is a gift you give to others because you’ve already given it to yourself, not in thanking yourself but in directing your mind toward what is true. Gratitude helps you see more clearly in good times and in challenging ones, too. In his autobiography, Eric Clapton wrote of two daily habits, one for morning, one…
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With the holidays just around the corner, and Thanksgiving next week here in the U.S., this time of the year can be especially stressful. Your company aims to finish the final quarter of 2016 strong, you may be busy booking holiday travel and coordinating gatherings with friends and family, or spending time driving your kids…
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This article was recently featured on Entrepreneur.com! At one time or another, every one of us will experience the aggravation of working with someone who should be fired. Often, the people in question are managers or co-workers who are apathetic and unmotivated, or perhaps they erode the culture through gossip or dishonesty. They complain instead of finding…
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Are you looking for constant inspiration and daily, bite-sized doses of advice to help develop your leadership skills? Your Twitter feed can deliver that shot in the arm you need. If only there wasn’t so much content to scroll through! Well, not to worry. I’ve discovered a handful of leaders whose words will stoke the fires of…
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This is first in a three part series where I provide guidance to help high achieving professionals reach their goals of serving on a corporate board. The first corporate board I served on (in 1996!) was informal; we sat around the small coffee table in the living room of our modest town home. I was cofounder…
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Talent is the key element, because it solves all other problems. So observed Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach America and CEO of Teach For All. Throughout my career as an entrepreneur, I’ve seen this firsthand as I’ve worked side-by-side with talented professionals with excellent leadership skills. And my experience has been varied and extensive: I co-founded…
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This article is featured in the Pocket Mentor mobile app — Providing leaders with daily advice to grow themselves, their teams, and their businesses. Start your free one week trial today! Every day, you can find a lot to complain about. But, after a bit of venting and acknowledging the problem, I usually start to feel trapped…
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This was a guest post I recently wrote for Entrepreneur.com I was a veteran of several startups long before I became a parent. And I continued to invest in and found startups after I became a mother. It’s a different juggle now. Before I had kids, I could literally work nearly round the clock, seven days a…
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