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How to Manage Your Online Reviews

Customer reviews on sites such as Yelp and Angie’s List have long posed major challenges to companies in industries like retail and hospitality. But now, customer review sites reach every industry.

The Power of a Professional Brand and Why You Need One

I often work with people that brand products or services but have no real awareness of their personal professional brand and why it matters. It’s time to take stock of your own brand.

Beyond Lean In: How to Achieve the Very Real Business Advantages of Diversity

by Sallie KrawcheckIn last week's news: The NFL bumbles through its reaction to charges of domestic abuse by its players. The Census Bureau announces that women are now paid 78 cents for every doll...

Top 3 Behaviors Founders Need to Change to Be Better Leaders

While founders can be inspirational to the growth of a venture or organization, if founder exceptionalism exists within an enterprise, it may hurt everyone in the long run.

When A Recruiter Unexpectedly Calls

You’re happily employed, and pick up your phone to find a recruiter on the other end. How do you maximize this call when you’re not actively looking?

Power IS a good thing

Let’s talk about power, Ladies.No! It’s not a bad thing, though we do often speak about it as if it were - a bad thing, and when we mention power in relation to women, the hue and cry that goes up ...

What I Learned from Angela Merkel and Other Powerful Women

Like so many of us today, I find myself longing for wise elders and wise peers, women I can rely on for spiritual and practical inspiration.

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Why Young Women Need to Negotiate, Now

We think we’ll learn adeptness with age, which is true. However, if we don’t start advocating for ourselves at an early age, it will be more difficult to become proficient at doing this later in life.

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Investing in Companies that Invest in Women

The best clue to a nation’s growth and development potential is the status and role of women. –David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

(Process) Rules Are Made to Be Broken

It’s true. Rules are made to be broken. Even in the world of Process Improvement. “Wait, what?” you ask.

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Losing My Mother Inspired Me to Help Others -- Like You

An avalanche of grief, combined with mountains of difficult decisions to make and details to attend to, was triggered the moment I received a phone call from my brother saying "Mom's dead" one sunn...

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Six Tips to Ace Your First Business Trip

There’s no reason to look like Natalie, the neophyte business traveler Anna Kendrick portrayed in Up in the Air. Business travel does not have to be intimi...