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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. They ensure their people have access to both the financial and human resources they need to get the job done and cut them loose to do their thing. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.”

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Don’t you wish you had a GPS for your life and career? Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals.

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Living Without the “K” On Your “_eyboard” :: Women on Business

Women on Business

My other option is to use the small lightweight laptop I use for travel. I can then choose the correct word from a list of possible word options, but I have to hope it’s on the list. Otherwise, I have to revert to Ctrl V. But because it’s for convenience, it’s really not ideal for lengthy projects, marathon typing, and other assignments.

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Advocacy to Shift Culture

Women on Business

Advocacy is what makes the “world go round&# so to speak as we observe how individuals rise through their careers. Human beings are unconsciously driven to support the individuals that remind us of ourselves- those we can identify with -those who are traveling on a journey we feel we have taken- a journey we understand.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Both Katie and I had, and still have, a great love for travel, and in our travels we had developed an appreciation of the brands of both established and emerging designers from around the world. This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering.

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Years ago my husband and I were fortunate enough to travel to China with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn who was being permitted to bring his Buddhist teachings to the people in Beijing and various outer monasteries. Interesting thought; I know when I take a cup of tea in my hands the first sip makes me feel calm and surprisingly content.