Women on Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Sue was not feeling GUTSY ; she was still in pain as she talked about an ugly spill that ended with a badly injured ankle. Several doctors told her she would have to be CAREFUL , very, very careful for, well… forever. Diana, sitting across the circle from Sue is a nurse. How could it be that she had the same ankle injury with that big, long medical name, a year ago?

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Engineering Long-term Education Class 203

Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Tom Brady’s wife, Gisele, will go down in history with a quote that goes well beyond football. Walking down the corridor to the safety of an elevator, she was taunted by fans about how the Super Bowl game ended and out came the now famous words about not being able to throw a ball and catch it at the same time. Maybe it was the shame of losing (someone had to), maybe it was the tension of hearing her husband was not as good as Eli (Manning that is), and maybe it was the frustration of expectatio

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Learning-by-Doing 197

Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Guest post by Lynn Schleeter (learn more about Lynn at the end of this post). “The death of the traditional salesman has been greatly exaggerated,” heralded a recent column in The Economist (October 22, 2011). Why does the media always have to dredge up the Willy Lomans of the world every time the sales function is covered? Sales has made leaps and bounds since Arthur Miller wrote that fateful play in 1949.

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Management Media Learning-by-Doing Fashion 187

Women on Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In a conversation with a trusted advisor this morning, I had a rather revolutionary suggestion thrown at me. We were complaining about employee motivation and work quality solutions and how none of them actually seemed to address the motivation and reward head on. My advisor threw out the suggestion “what if people were only paid for the kind of work they completed?

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

With so much electronic communication, I know that many of you are as hungry as I am for more in-person connections. Twitter, texting, e-mail, and Skype are fine for business or for personal outreach and updates, but nothing takes the place of a good old fashioned sit-down talk, or a person-to-person meeting with your friend, business client, or potential vendor.

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Fashion Open-book Class Participative 169

Women on Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Guest post by Jeffrey Sooey (learn more about Jeffrey at the end of this article). There are different coaching services to meet our many and varied needs. There are leadership coaching services and executive and corporate coaching services. These services may be similar but they also have their distinct differences which can assist you when dealing with a specific service.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing Execution 157

Women on Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Guest post by Charity Cason (learn more about Charity at the end of this article). In this age of social media and blogging, it’s more important than ever to make sure that your blog is marketing your business effectively 24 hours a day. There are so many mistakes that new bloggers make which can be easily avoided from the outset. Let’s face it; business people are good at what they do, but they aren’t always good at marketing online.

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