Time to Power Up your Completing and Remembering list for 2017.  Each December I send out this list in my blog.  I want to suggest a few changes to the process this year: If you are new to my blog, just complete the questions below. If you have your 2016 list add this question: How...Read More

The Hey, Boss Lady podcast is about women and how they will use power differently now that they have more of it. Our initial intent was to gather women from a diverse spectrum of businesses to ask one simple question, “Now that women have more power in business, how will things be different?”  The first...Read More

Long-Term relationships usually require courage, but not my relationship with Bill Treasurer.  I have known Bill since 2007 and it is not a giant leap for me to call him a friend.  I featured one of Bill’s first Berrett-Koehler books, Courage Goes to Work, on my TV segment, Books That Matter, and he was a...Read More

Whether you are young and focused or older and focused, there are times when someone can say something to you that just lands wrong.  Then again, have you ever had someone say something that was meant to tear you down, but instead, it caused you to rise higher than you ever expected?Read More

Do you hope or believe the power of one person could shift an entire situation from failure to success, from terror to cooperation, from isolation to inclusion?  In 1999, I listened as Mike Milken extolled the value shift in the Chicago Bulls basketball team pre-Michael Jordon and post and the Boston Celtics basketball team pre-Larry...Read More

Willpower has returned!  Thanks to the research of Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney and the publication of their recent book, Willpower:  Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, willpower is shaking its reputation as a character flaw and being studied as a strength to be developed. The transition from studying why people lack willpower to studying...Read More

One of the most enjoyable keynote speeches I ever heard was designed around quotes that made a point about the speakers life.  The speaker was a trained actress so there was extra power in her delivery, yet I have always felt the very few words that constitute most quotes contain as much significance as an...Read More

Appreciate (v): to judge with heightened perception or understanding. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary Success Challenge: Observe things you take for granted. A warm cup of coffee when you get to the office, your computer operating as it was intended, the phone working or the person who hands you your ticket at the train station. What...Read More

The people of the United States are about to elect a new President. Who that will be may feel to you like a new beginning, or perhaps the beginning of the end! Like all things in our lives, the story you tell about everything, from the impact of the new president, to the economy, to...Read More

Do you feel as though you are just too tired to try again? Do you feel you land the punches perfectly but keep getting knocked down? Do you wonder if you have it in you to get up, yet again, and fight the good fight? Do you feel all those things and try again, anyway;...Read More