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The Anatomy of a Practical Genius

Women on Business

That’s what practical genius is all about: identifying and leveraging both the soft and hard unique personal assets each of us possesses. Of course, it’s also about using those assets to open doors, attract opportunity, leverage personal power, and succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Working for joy, innovation and autonomy is.

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Is Bias Fixable?

Harvard Business Review

As David Burkus recently wrote, innovation isn''t an idea problem, but rather a recognition problem ; a lack of noticing the good ideas already there. But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. And you do not see others.

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Unleashing Your Leadership Presence …

The Empowered Buisness

In 1987, I flew to LA to a women’s leadership conference for one reason only. It’s mindset, attitude, personal power and congruent physiology/tonality all wrapped up in one. Owning your space is absolutely crucial to become a powerful, influential leader. Even Before You Speak. It is kinesthetic, energetic and spatial.