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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers Published by Michael Lee Stallard on October 9, 2010 04:47 pm under employee engagement Check out this sampling of posts from top leadership bloggers as part of a leadership carnival hosted by Mary Jo Asmus.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

Instead, she left some of her chocolate samples with the Neiman Marcus buyer, and the next day he called and asked for more, which he left in the company’s break room. Katrina Markoff first shopped her chocolates to Neiman Marcus who originally gave her a weak response. Katrina didn’t give up.

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“No idea” Means I Have One :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours. As you can see, offering a number of choices at every turn allows those involved to retain some measure of control, which is essential to keeping the situation from escalating.

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Leadership Posts from Top Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Check out recent favorite blog posts from a sampling of top bloggers on leadership below. Linda Fisher Thornton gets us thinking about ethics with Ethical Thinking: 5 Questions to Ponder for the New Year posted at Leading in Context LLC. posted at Job Interview & Career Guide. posted at Bret L.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. The choice of alliance will color the depth of exchange. Align with similar initiatives. To reinvent the wheel is time-consuming.

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People Who Graduate During Recessions Earn Less Money — but They’re Happier

Harvard Business Review

When the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 hit the job market, their employment prospects were depressingly bleak. Nine months after graduation, only 56% of the class of 2010 had found a job. These early career experiences appear to have lasting negative consequences for later career success.

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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef. At a time when he was really down on his luck, he considered jobs he never imagined earlier in his career, like becoming a night watchman.