When I work as a business coach with women business owners, we often discuss marketing and sales. These are the revenue-driving engines of your business. One of the first hurdles we need to overcome though, is the entrepreneur’s natural tendency to want to be all things to all people. This leads to confusion in [...]
| It still moves me to tears. I watched Susan Boyle’s original audition on YouTube again this morning, inspired by the show last night about her. She is an inspiration to everyone, I believe, because she is clear, authentic and oh, so very human. When asked about what she wanted, she said, “I’m trying to [...] 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 [...] In her book, Tough Choices: A Memoir, Carly Fiorina seems surprised that the press wanted to focus on the fact that she was a woman CEO, not just a CEO. “I was trying to tell women that although there are plenty of obstacles and prejudices, there isn’t some invisible barrier that prevents them from achieving [...] In October Time Magazine published a excerpts from set of interviews they did called “Green Roundtable.” One comment, by Dan Barber, executive chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns (where do they come up with these names?) intrigued me. Dan said, “People have to cook more. If we just cook [...] | 
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