This post first appeared on Women 2.0, a community-driven media brand designed for aspiring and current innovators in technology. If one of your career goals is to serve on a board of directors, good for you! Board service is an exceptional opportunity to contribute your strengths to a worthy cause. It will allow you to grow…
Happy new year and I hope you are off to a wonderful and productive start! My goal has always been to provide you with valuable guidance on how to take small, incremental steps to advance in your career and achieve a life of success and happiness. As we jump into the new year, I’m eager…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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! You are the most powerful influencer in your success. One summer, one of our teenage sons attended the 5-day Duke University basketball camp under the tutelage…