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Delicious: Getting Your Ideas As Women Leaders To Catch On

If your idea was edible, would it be broccoli or would it be a cheeseburger?

Jonah Berger, author and marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania told an audience in Chicago for the Engage 2017 conference recently, “Ideas do not sell themselves. The notion that if an idea is good, people will share it, is wrong.”

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Tell Me A Story: Powerful Women Leaders Value The Personal Tale

It started with losing her lizard.

Sandy Coletta’s pet bearded dragon, or pogona, had escaped from its cage. As president of Kent Hospital in Rhode Island, Coletta says she wrote about how she felt losing her pet and her efforts to find it in the newsletter for 2,000 employees. There was, of course, a moral to the story, about adaptability and looking for solutions to a problem.

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Women Are Creating Brilliant New Apps, Here's How to Do It

Have you ever had an amazing idea for an App and were overwhelmed with the idea of getting started? When I decided it was time to build an App for my business Moms Pump Here my first thought was I need to hire someone for this. There was no way I, or my business partner, was going to be able to undergo the process ourselves and maintain our sanity.

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Email Like a Boss: This Gmail Plug-in Helps You Type with Confidence

Along with hitting the gym more often and finally finishing that David Foster Wallace novel (right?!), my big resolution for 2016 was to simply be more confident. Strengthening one’s style of speech is a big step towards projecting more confidence. Rather than interjecting with, “Sorry, but I think there might be another way to consider that problem,” I’ll say, “I have an alternative solution.” Not bad, right? And now this same type of filter now exists for your emails in the form of Just Not Sorry.

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