If you just started a new job (or ever plan on moving into a new role within or outside your current company) - stop everything, and pick up this book. I have used this book as a road map for the first 90 days on the job in ...
The First 90 Days
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Business Advice - Marketing, How To, Management, Networking Groups, Personal Branding, Personal Development, Professional Development, Taking A Risk, The Year Ahead, Who's The Boss?, Working Moms, Your Office Personality, Finding a Job, The C-Suite
6 Surefire Signs You Need A Beach Vacation
As Robert Henri put so eloquently, “It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” What is he talking about? Beach going.
Simple as that. And what’s so true for Robert Henri also applies to me, and many...
The Accidental Entrepreneur - May Books
Move over yellow legal pads, there’s a new sheriff in town. (And she’s sportin’ some of the hottest graphic prints around.) From houndstooth to lattice and even mermaid (just a few of their addictive patterns), ...
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Company Profiles
What's Black & White and Read All Over?
This was our 3rd favorite story of the year! Originally published on October 10, 2011.
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit....
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Entrepreneurship
Ding Dong, Your Youth Is Gone
Around this time of year, I always get the itch to hop into my four-poster bed, pull the comforter up over my head and hide. This year, was way worse. The weather has absolutely nothing to do with it – I’m actually doing it because I just turned...
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Glass Heel on Forbes
The Last Lecture
I won't attempt to summarize the greatness contained in this book or the lessons I've learned from the author, Randy Pausch. I'll just start off by encouraging you to get your hands on these words in any way possible. (And you'll probably...
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Daily Motivation
Ladies We Love: Kaira Rouda, Entrepreneur/Author
Mary Barra, Meg Whitman, Irene Rosenfeld, there are many women in business today paving the way for us and serving as amazing examples. But they're in the news all the time....
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Ladies We Love
Life After Death - The Business of Bouncing Back
I can still remember the silence that fell over my childhood living room when she spoke those two unsuspecting words on Juy 17, 1996. “It’s cancer,” she tells us. My Mom had received a bad mammogram, and my sixteen-year-old mind immediately saw...
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Finding Balance
Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs
Kaira Rouda wrapped up her 20-plus years of marketing experience into an easy-to-read entrepreneurial arsenal of all things personal and business branding - just for you.
Rouda...
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Daily Motivation, Entrepreneurship
Social Graces
I have to admit - I'm a sucker for a good infographic...especially if you mix in small business AND social media. How could you go wrong? Everywhere we turn, someone is proclaiming to be a social media expert. In an age where both of my husband's...
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Social Media