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Busy Business Women–It’s Important to Slow Down

caseydawes — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:35:05 +0000

A death of a person close to you always brings a time of reflection. My ex-husband died last week. We’d been divorced for over a decade, but still talked a few times a month. It’s hitting me harder than I ever anticipated it would. People in my life, especially my wonderful clients, are giving me [...]

The Loss of the Man on the Floor

caseydawes — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:30:26 +0000

In the 1990s there was a great rush to outsource to “anywhere but the US.” The rational was to save money because the outsourced tasks were repetitive and non-essential. Innovation and management could be done in America, it was reasoned, because that was the part of the business that required experience and specialized industry knowledge.

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Business Leadership for Women

caseydawes — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:53:31 +0000

Many women entrepreneurs that I know use a Vision Board to create an idea of where they want to go in their lives. Rather than pen and paper or computerized graphics, they create collages, just like they did in grade school, to capture their dreams. A Vision Board is an ideal, and vision in business [...]

Women Entrepreneurs, Are You Ready for the Next Step?

caseydawes — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:25:30 +0000

I tend to tear out magazine articles that start me thinking. I have one from Pink Magazine about leadership by Laura Lee Gentry. In it, she focuses four core skills that were “critical for successful executives: results orientation, team leadership, collaboration and influencing, and strategic orientation.”

As a woman entrepreneur, you are an executive of [...]