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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

Understanding your purpose, what motivates you and most importantly using this knowledge to advantage is key to your success, both professionally and personally. Knowing why CoachStation exists has been paramount to my success to date. Purpose = Building Success, Making a difference. Why do you do what you do?

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Health, Wellness, and a Giveaway to WomenonBusiness Readers

Women on Business

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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

Women on Business

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

There is a direct link between empathy and commercial success. Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Online Retail. compared to weighted average of 5.2% Walt Disney.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE).

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. Senior leaders were so focused on financial impact that they couldn’t see the ethical damage. In a large organization, successful risk management requires all hands on deck. ” Deterrents to speaking up.