I started my first business thirty years ago, and I like to think that my businesses and myself are works in progress; we always are learning and then shifting, adapting, and growing. But lessons come from the most unexpected places, like the 23-year-old corn snake named Moe that came with my husband when we married four years ago. 1. Be Authentic Now before you dismiss this … [Read more...]
Tomorrow’s Business Women are Trained on the Field
Moments of reflection can hit you when you least expect them. It was 2015, and I was standing in the Canyon Of Heroes, watching the US Women’s Soccer team celebrate their World Cup victory -- the first parade New York had ever held for a women’s sports team. As I stood there, with immense pride, it hit me that we would never have experienced this celebration were it not for the … [Read more...]
How to Achieve Peak Performance – Business Lessons from a Baseball Mom
My son has been playing travel baseball for nine years, and throughout those nine years, I have learned some valuable lessons: An eight a.m. baseball game in a state outside my own is the perfect alternative to the average family vacation. Life is far too short to waste precious time scrubbing stains out of white uniform pants. The True meaning behind “heads up!” is … [Read more...]
Business Lessons from the 2016 Primary Elections
If you have remotely paid attention to the 2016 primary elections, you know there is something crazy going on. The two most (dare I say) hated, despised, and polarizing figures in U.S. Presidential history are vying for your vote as President. It is unimaginable that our presidential election cycle has produced history making precedents that may set the tone for years to … [Read more...]
5 Lessons You’ll Learn in Your First Job
Three brief months after college commencement, I had serendipitously locked down a solid, parent-approved job working at a fast paced digital agency. It felt like the parts of adulthood promised for the last two decades—biweekly paychecks, health benefits, retirement funds, car bills—were finally being unraveled with climactic anticipation. As my always astute parents assured, … [Read more...]
3 Lessons for CEO’s from Reality TV Show Undercover Boss
The top rated CBS reality show, Undercover Boss, offers some real and valuable lessons for the business world. If you’ve never watched, the reality show follows chief executives at companies, such as Waste Management, 7-Eleven and even Hooters, as they work “undercover” alongside their unknowing employees. And although I’m not a big fan of reality TV (to say the least), I am a … [Read more...]