Growing up the daughter of two lawyers, Carla Brodley, dean of Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, says she rebelled against parental advice to be a math major.
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“Please remove the word ‘working’ from ‘mother’ the title of our upcoming Virtual Happy Hour webcast,” I said to my team. “All mothers are working mothers.”
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My roof needs repair. One roofing company said the cost was in a range of several thousands of dollars and refused to be specific. Another roofer said he couldn’t possibly tell me how much it might cost until he starts working and that he would just go up there and come down after 8 hours, if that was all I could afford.
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Five years ago Carole Rains, 60, didn’t know what an emu was. And now she is in the online retail business of selling Emu Joy, the brand name she created for dozens of consumer skincare and pain relief products based on emu oil. For the record, an emu is the flightless bird that looks like an unattractive ostrich.
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I remember how taken I was when I read science historian James Gleick’s 1995 article “Just a Damn Minute.”
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Used to be that you could physically throw out old files—stacks of papers, publications and manila folders—to stay on top of your workplace mess.
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More women own businesses now than at any time in the past. According to the 2018 State of Women-Owned Businesses, a report from American Express, the number of women-owned businesses grew by 58 percent from 2007 to 2018.
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Chances are we all have them. People we work with, for and interact with professionally who snap, belittle, demean or shoot microaggressions your way or the way of whomever they choose.
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Valerie Jarrett says when she set off for her first year at Stanford University in 1974, her mother gave her a warning.
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I don’t know any woman in business who fakes it until she makes it.
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As a 16-year-old mother dropping out of ninth grade in Seattle, Anne Peterson would have said where she is now, 34 years later, would be highly unlikely.
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Yoda is not real.
No one person will magically be your mentor who will show you the path to success for your entire professional life.
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