There’s No Such Thing as Negative Feedback
No one wants to give negative feedback, and you don’t have to. Instead try positive feedback, coaching, and counseling.
How a Vision Becomes a Reality
Today is the 25th anniversary of Sleepless in Seattle, and my husband, Gary Foster, was the driving creative force behind the film. Of all the people I’ve learned from in my life, I’ve learned more from him than anyone else about the ability to collaborate, be tactfully assertive, and build a great team in order to realize a common goal and vision. Read his piece on what it took to turn a good script from a then-unknown writer into a…
Three Ways to Balance Long-Term and Short-Term Goals
News quiz: Who is publicly advocating for private investors to balance their investment returns with “the prosperity and security of their fellow citizens”? If you answered BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the head of one of Wall Street’s flagship firms, you were right. But if you didn’t know, you might be tempted to answer Bernie Sanders or someone from Occupy Wall Street. As head of one of Wall Street’s flagship firms, Larry Fink made more than one headline by focusing his…
Superior Employees Matter
Companies that develop and retain superior employees are making more money with fewer employees.
5 Tips for More Visibility at Work
No one likes to be invisible. At work, it’s a surprisingly easy pattern to fall into. Ironically, the harder you work, the easier it is to feel invisible.
Everything I Need to be Powerful, I Learned in Yoga
“Planking is a powerful pose.” This is the sort of thing my yoga teacher proclaims to exhort me to sweat out another minute. Surely there is some power involved here, but who knew it was the same kind of power that you might witness in a persuasive meeting, a TED talk, or a board meeting? I trust my yoga teacher implicitly, and as it turns out, it happens that she knows a thing or two about what it takes to…