Charo is a separate conversation.
As someone who indulges in the “Dancing With the Stars” phenom along with 10-11 million other fans each week watching the amateurs and the pros try to make it all look effortless, I can heed several important leadership lessons on display.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of happy talk lately, perhaps in reaction to a stressful political climate. But it seems as if more and more people are in search of happiness and striving to tell others how to achieve it at work, home, rest and play.
Read MoreIt’s not selfish, narcissistic, spoiled or just trendy. It’s healthy.
Women in the workplace can use and benefit from mindfulness practices and self-care perhaps more than men, research finds. That may have to do with the propensity for working women—and working mothers especially— to multitask most every hour of the day.
Read MoreStop. Wait a minute.
Don’t text. Don’t email. Don’t leave a voice message. If you are not able to check, recheck and remove all emotion from your business messages, do not, I repeat, do not, press send.
Read MoreYou can squeeze a lot of leadership lessons out of 27 years in the fresh juice business. Marygrace Sexton, CEO of Natalie’s Orchid Island Juice Co., a Florida-based company serving customers is in 30 states and 24 countries, is willing and eager to do just that.
Read MoreAugust is known to be the least productive month of the year. It is when most people take off for vacation. In countries that guarantee over 30 days paid leave, citizens take off for the entire month and businesses shut down. For those still at the office, it can be relatively slow and difficult to move forward with projects that require the help or expertise of others.
Read MoreWith the race to presidential elections in the U.S. running full throttle and the possibility of a female president more probable than it has ever been before, most voters and spectators can’t help but wonder who really is better-equipped to run a country.
Read MoreA recent study reinforces something I’ve learned the long, hard way: that to succeed in the workplace, we women need to desensitize ourselves to criticism and develop a thick skin because, inevitably, negative comments are going to come our way.
The study, conducted by linguist Kieran Snyder for Fortune Magazine, examined 248 performance reviews of people employed by 28 technology companies, 58% of whom were men, and 42% women.
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