Women in Business
Are You “Aging" Yourself at Work? — Age-Telling Habits to Ditch
I read a very disturbing blog last week about how you can tell someone’s age by their typing! The big controversy….one space or two after a punctuation mark. When I read the headline, I said to myself, “Of course you ALWAYS space twice after a period. WRONG! Only old people do that.” After 5 minutes…
Read More5 Reasons Why Women Make Extraordinary CEOs
Women currently hold 4.8% of Fortune 500 CEO roles. What a freaky low number considering how dazzling women are in leading others! Isn’t being a CEO about serving others, rather than others serving the CEO? Serving others, at its best, requires empathy, healing, and awareness! Being a CEO, to me, has never been about a…
Read MoreBrand You: The Leader
Align Yourself: Don’t pretend to be something that you are not. Who you are at the office is who you are with the Whole Food’s cashier or your Abby the cat. Demand of yourself congruence between your self-image and your public image. Never fake it and be committed to living the passionate life you were…
Read MoreMs. CEO: The Face of Transparency
Women CEO’s have a way of “keeping it real.” They say what they do and do what they say. Their convictions are carried outside the office to their everyday lives. Their principles are the value systems of their companies. They have one Facebook account. They are transparent. What you see is what you get! …
Read MoreFood for Thought
Ready to be your own boss? You have a market-tested idea or will buy into a franchise. CHECK You work for someone else but dream of being an entrepreneur. CHECK You are committed to short term sacrifice for long term gain. CHECK You have the experience to go out on your own. CHECK You have…
Read MoreNew Franchsing Opportunity
Press Release Local Business Franchising Operations Tulsa, Okla., (November 11, 2011) – Teresa Knox, founder and owner of Community Care College, Clary Sage College and Oklahoma Technical College announced today that she is franchising certain aspects of her current business model, including a Salon and Spa with a prototype store to open in January of 2012.…
Read MoreA Lesson from the Blue Rose Cafe
Has an unplanned moment ever hit you so intensely that you, in reactionary response, mixed-up all of the rules of rational behavior and decision making? When life gives you a sour lime, darn it…you better have the knowhow to make a Cherry Limeade. Even with my three years of intense limeade training at Sonic Drive…
Read MoreCrapola
I will be on a flight to Las Vegas tomorrow attending a very special event for a very special person. Go online and you’ll find many lists of where to go, what to see, what you must not miss and how to travel in style to America’s Sin City. It’s true. Las Vegas is the…
Read MoreFlip the Bird
Let’s work on taking your career to an improved destination…someplace tropical so you can sip a fresh Pina Colada perhaps? Or, maybe just a promotion and pay increase? Yep! That’s better. If these simple little gestures helped me, I guarantee they can work for you. No more sucking up to the boss with yummy doughnuts…
Read MoreMy New Year's Wish
I think about the decisions and choices that I have made over the years. Would I go back in time and change things if I had the opportunity? Well, I wish I hadn’t gotten married the first time around so that I would have never gotten divorced, but then I wouldn’t have my beautiful baby…
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