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âWhat can I do to help?â These words spoken from young lips are music to any motherâs ears. I have four children, 22 nieces and nephews, and 9 godchildren, so the odds are favorable that I hear that p...
Itâs Girl Scout cookie âclose-outâ season and Iâm all in. Outside polling stations around the country last week, boxes of last yearâs cookies were selling like hotcakes. And they taste as good as they...
When we were newly married, Bob and I saw the play âDefending the Cavemanâ with some friends. Caveman is a one-man comedy that explores the innate differences between men and women with hilarious clar...
I began my career in Xerox Corporationâs executive training program, which, in the mid-80s, was reputed to be one of the top three executive training programs of the time. How I, an English major who ...
Seeking to be more fully and objectively informed, Kelley and I invited randomly selected new Prepare to Launch U students to participate in small video chat focus groups about the course last week. A...
As any astute observer of, or participant in, the American workplace will acknowledge, employers and hiring managers have some degree of age bias. We all do, and it runs both ways: âThe millennial is ...
Raise your hand if youâve had a conversation in your lifetime that would qualify more as a defining moment than a conversation. Yes? Then you will know exactly where Iâm coming from with the story I a...
Back in the day when writing a rĂ©sumĂ© required thoughtful precision (no spell check), a trip to the library (no company Google searches), expensive âbondâ paper and envelopes â plus postage â the econ...
When I entered high school four decades ago (yikes!) the first lesson I learned wasnât extracted from a bio lab or a book of American poems. It was more of a pop psychology lesson: Being social is eas...
Recently, Iâve had a number of male clients ask me how to bring more woman-leaders into their organizations. I donât care that this might be a knee-jerk response to current events; Iâm just thrilled t...
One of my earliest and all-time favorite clients is a woman named Carol.
Carol left her job as a senior corporate trainer for a national retailer to stay home and raise three sons. Her youngest was j...
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