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25% off all Website Design (Including WordPress!)

Jennifer Rai — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:05:39 +0000

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Please help my reach my goal for the 2013 Walk for Hunger!

Jennifer Rai — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:01:37 +0000

On Sunday, May 5th, I am proud to be joining in Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger. Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger brings thousands of people to our state’s capital each year to raise money for antihunger programs, and to promote awareness about the face of hunger in our communities. At the 2012 Walk for Hunger, 43,000 people came together and raised $3.6 million! By participating in the 2013 Walk for Hunger, I am pledging to make a difference in three important ways: 1. To help spread the word about the need for hunger relief in our state 2. To support...

Are You Playing to Win?

Holly G. Green — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:00:47 +0000

Your #1 job as a leader is to create a compelling vision of winning, then keep yourself and everyone else in the organization focused on it with laser-like intensity. Are you focused on winning and moving towards it each day, celebrating milestones along the way? Or do you play to not lose? When an organization lacks a clear destination, it usually has many ill-defined ones. Employees feel unmotivated and uncommitted. Time, talent, and resources get wasted on products and projects that go nowhere. And people end up working on their own personal agendas rather than doing what’s best for the...

Why Women May Be Better Leaders

Ray Williams — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:02:15 +0000

The issue of the glass ceiling has been with us for sometime now, yet relatively little progress is being made in North America, when it comes to senior executive positions and boards of directors, compared to other countries, where significant progress is being made in gender diversity. At the same time, there is increasing evidence that women actually make better leaders, and are more suited to the style of leadership needed today in organizations. What is the evidence to support the contention that women are better leaders? Kellie A. McElhaney and Sanaz Mobasseri of the Haas School of Business at...

Are You in the Innovation Danger Zone?

Holly G. Green — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:18:29 +0000

Ever wonder why some companies seem to effortlessly come out with one great innovation after another while others struggle to get even one new product or service out the door? There’s a reason for it. Innovation is a complex process that involves a lot more than just throwing money at an R&D department and hoping for results. Specifically, it requires certain ways of thinking and behaving that open people up to considering possibilities and prevent them from getting stuck in the past. Companies that innovate on a regular basis practice these behaviors on a regular basis. Companies that struggle to...

Why Second Best May Be Better Than Trying To Be Superstar

Ray Williams — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:00:33 +0000

Want to be successful in your career and life? Just follow the example of the superstars of business, celebrities, professional athletes and entertainers. Emulate the habits of Tiger Woods (before his personal crisis), Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Lance Armstrong or Sir Richard Branson. Or at the organizational level, just follow the examples of Apple, GE or Google. That’s what we are told by thousands of books, movies, seminars, consultants and self-help gurus, exhorting people to follow the same steps, habits and secrets of the super successful, and they too will achieve the same outstanding results. The problem with this kind...

Everything You Wanted to Know About Christmas (but were afraid to Google)

Holly G. Green — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:05:48 +0000

Did you know that Christmas — this country’s most cherished Christian holiday — has its roots in pagan festivals such as Saturnalia, the Kalends (a precursor to the 12 days of Christmas), and Deus Sol Invictus (birthday of the unconquerable sun)? According to historians, in ancient times these celebrations all took place around this time of year. When the Christian church came along, it strongly disapproved of such celebrations, and co-opted the pagans by declaring December 25 as Christ’s birthday – even though there is no evidence that Christ was born on that day. In A.D. 350, Pope Julius I...

Mobile Apps – What’s the Big Deal?

David J Dunworth — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:00:56 +0000

It’s a HUGE deal, in reality. Mobile Apps for business come in all shapes and sizes, as well as platforms. While Apple App Store offers more than one-half million apps, the Android Platform is actually out-pacing them, according to MobileMarketingReport.com. In fact, this past May, Google announced that they were building an app on the Andriod operating system. Regardless of which platform, mobile apps for business is a “top tier tool” for businesses large and small. With the current workforce of mobile app developers being inundated with requests, demand for mobile apps continues to gain strength in the marketplace, and...

The Goldmine of Pinterest

Lauren Polhill — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:00:11 +0000

There is endless potential to find new clients on the hugely popular social networking site Pinterest. People engage in this phenomenon to relax, as a means of self-expression and to foster creativity. Displaying your company’s products and services on a Pinterest board is ingenious as users can leisurely browse your inventory from the comfort of home while enjoying one of their favorite pastimes. Pinterest fanatics virtually “pin” images of everything from apparel, furniture and recipes to art, fitness regiments and dream travel destinations onto cyber cork boards to save their finds. Users invest considerable amounts of time chronicling and archiving...

Why “Busyness” is Not Productivity

Ray Williams — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:00:08 +0000

Talk to almost anyone today, and they complain about having “no time,” about being too busy. And we now equate that busyness to productivity and a characteristic of a successful life. The truth of the matter is that busyness does not result in greater productivity and that busyness is contributing to a culture of continuous anxiety and stress. “If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyhone how they’re doing,” contends Tin Kreider, in his article,...

Networking Groups – Worth Your Time and Investment?

Anne Bachrach — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:00:49 +0000

If you are or have ever been involved in a ‘networking’ group, was it worth the time and energy you invested? If you paid a fee, was it worth the investment? If you said yes, it was or is worth the time, energy, and money I invested, that’s great. So many people I talk to who are involved in one or more networking groups, seem to be going through the motions. They don’t seem to get much out of the group, so what are they really putting into the group? When you attend a networking group function, ask yourself what...

Know When to Manage and When to Coach

Holly G. Green — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:00:06 +0000

Have you ever wondered why the head of a baseball team is called the manager and the head of a basketball team is called the coach? (These are the kinds of things I sometimes ponder on long airplane rides.) The answer has to do not just with the obvious differences between the two sports, but also with how the players are coached and managed during the games. Just as baseball and basketball are two very different sports, coaching and managing are two very different activities. One has to do with directing, the other has to do with teaching. Managing is...

Stop Wasting Time! Avoid These 12 Things

Howard Shore — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:00:37 +0000

Your time management habits need to be improved. I’m not trying to single you out, but seriously, most of us could improve the way we manage our time. Especially leaders. In my long tenure as a leadership coach and trainer, I’ve noted that time management is one of the biggest challenges most leaders face and is one of the easiest to fix. What I’ve noticed is that the same daily tasks and activities are sucking time away from leaders. See if you can spot the ones that are sucking up your time: Interruptions: telephone and personal visits. Meetings: the long,...

Meditation in the Least Likely Places

Sheevaun — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:00:41 +0000

Are we ready for this yet in our schools, workplaces, homes, kids playtime?

Referral Conversations So You Can Help People

Anne Bachrach — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:00:23 +0000

It’s about being of service and helping people get what they want and need, when they want and need it. Set a goal to ask for one person for a referral each day, or whatever you want your goal to be. In so many cases, it isn’t that people don’t want to refer you, it is that they are busy and consumed with the things going on in their life to think about how to help you help other people.

Reinvention: Less About Addition, More About Subtraction

Laura Fortgang — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:00:29 +0000

The tendency is to think you must be more or do more or add a missing skill or edge to keep yourself in the running in this job market. In some cases, that is true. Maybe there is a degree or a certification that has to happen, but the truth is, the next step for most people who need to reinvent is to subtract something from their approach.

What Gorillas are You Missing?

Holly G. Green — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:00:09 +0000

We think we see a lot more of the world around us than we actually do. That’s just one of six illusions that profoundly influence our ability to lead organizations.

Looking Great (Front and Back) in Jeans

Michele Benza — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:00:19 +0000

At the top of the list is the most important point to consider: Do not wear what everybody else is wearing unless you have the body type that suits the current trend!

Mindful Communications

Sheevaun — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:00:52 +0000

Most days we walk through the day without much thought about how we will communicate. We speak to our family in the same old way. Our chatter with the store clerks is fleeting. The emails we send are filled with our wants, needs, desires and demands. Where is the communication that is filled with goodness and intention?

The Dangers of Sensory Overload

Holly G. Green — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:00:37 +0000

Call me an old fogey, but the fact is we live in a very over-stimulated world. The real issue is not so much that we’re constantly in sensory overload. It’s that we’ve become desensitized to most of the stimuli bombarding our senses. This automatic tuning out of sensory input enables us to cope in today’s information overloaded world. But it does not serve us well at work.