When the Right Thing is Also the Smart Thing: the Supplier Diversity Win-Win While a very strong ethical case can be made around the ability (and need) for large companies to use their power and influence to help address racial injustice through actively diversifying their vendor pools, equally strong arguments can be made for the [...]
Become a Better Storyteller to Be a More Effective Leader It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Atlanta and I was, once again, stuck indoors hunched over my computer crunching numbers to create the financial report my boss would present on Monday morning. A friend invited me for a walk, but I reluctantly declined, spending [...]
Juneteenth is Time to Reflect on Progress Made and Progress Needed The oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, Juneteenth, or African American Emancipation Day, marks the freeing of the last enslaved people more than two years after the end of the Civil War and adoption of the Emancipation [...]
Anticipate and Address Challenges of the Hybrid Workplace Forced into creating work-from-home options during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses small to large must now figure out what aspects to keep and how to manage the increased complexity. What are the rules and who has to follow them? Managing and nurturing remote workers, especially [...]
Summer is Perfect Time to Hone a Key Leadership Habit: Reading If you’re of a certain age, you may remember the ad campaign Reading is FUNdamental that the nation’s largest non-profit children’s literacy organization used for years to educate parents that reading is a key skill for school success, and to convince kids reading could [...]
To Choose Your Focus You Have to Choose What to Neglect Despite what every efficiency expert claims, you cannot get everything done. No matter how hard you work, how efficient you are, or even how much you’re able to delegate, you will never do all the things you’d like to because your energy, time and [...]
Build Your Memory to Build Your Business Because we now carry powerful computers in our pockets 24/7, we often invest little effort in actually remembering much of anything. But when building a business or growing a career, a lot of your success will depend on your ability to process new information efficiently, connect it to [...]
Why Women Need Their Own Money and Credit History In 1960, fewer than 4% of U.S. women earned more than their husbands. Today, about half of us earn the same or more than our husbands or partners, according to a 2020 survey by TD Ameritrade. And that number is likely to keep rising in the [...]
Borrow Money From Family and Friends and Keep Relationships Intact It’s so fun to watch a fellow entrepreneur win investment on Shark Tank to make her dream business into a reality. Likewise, every time a small startup is selected by the likes of Y Combinator or Techstars, hope rises for all founders. But actually, the [...]
Searching for Your Blue Ocean Opportunities Many new businesses revolve around upstart competitors bent on carving out a piece of an existing market with a slightly differentiated product or service, or one that’s cheaper or easier to access. The focus is on capturing customers from the competition to get your piece of the pie. A [...]
