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How One Lesbian Power Couple Is Raising Up a Baby Boy and a Killer Food Festival
Last year I had the pleasure of interviewing an inspiring lesbian couple based in Portland, OR -- Carrie Welch and her wife Jannie Huang. Welch is the Co-Founder of Feast, Portland's annual kick ass...
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Do You Know How to Give (and receive) Feedback?
I recently published a long article about feedback at work and the response has been overwhelming. People everywhere have come to me to talk about this issue, because it's such a complex part of our...
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How To Bring Down Exorbitant College Costs
Lawmakers from across the country are in a perennial tug-of-war over the best ways to make college affordable and to find solutions to the student debt crisis, and so are several presidential hopefuls....
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Apple Watch: Success or Failure?
Last year at about this time Apple announced a number of new products including the Apple Watch. Without knowing the constraints Apple faced in the introduction of this watch, I was critical of the...
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Women in Business Q&A: Tapasya Bali, Co-Founder and COO, YOGASMOGA
Tapasya Bali is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of YOGASMOGA. YOGASMOGA is a designer, manufacturer and retailer of Yoga inspired athletic apparel and accessories and is proudly made in the...
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Are HECM Reverse Mortgages Overpriced?
HECM reverse mortgages are reputed to carry high upfront fees, which raises two questions addressed here. First, are seniors getting real value in exchange for the high fees? The answer in most cases...
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The Human Side of Business Communications: An Interview With Kathy Klotz-Guest
Business communication is broken, but don't take my word for it. In May 2013, the PMI released its annual "Pulse of the Profession" report. Specifically, "$135 million is at risk for every $1 billion...
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Generation Stress
Millennials (18-33 year olds) and Generation X (34-46 year olds) are now called Generation Stress. That's because for the last three years, the American Psychological Association's research on stress...
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We Are Asking Too Much of the Federal Reserve
There has been obsessive chatter about whether the Federal Reserve will, or should, raise interest rates this fall. At the Fed's annual end-of-summer gabfest at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the issue was...
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6 Apps You Didn't Know Could Help Increase Your Productivity
This is part of the Increased Productivity series where we explore the strategies and tools that will help you accomplish more on your business. App usage has dramatically increased during the past...
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Monetizing Neighborliness
eNeighbr exudes entrepreneurial spirit, but does it foster the kind of community we want to live in? Last Friday, I saw a flyer in my New York City neighborhood advertising a new service called...
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Are You One in Seven?
Another summer post.... Did you feel it? Were you a part of it? Was it your post that took it over the top? The "it" that I'm talking about is the reported fact that Facebook, last Monday, August 24,...
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Market crashes and Migration Linked by Hot Money Flows
The collapse in stock markets and the surge in the number of refugees flooding into Europe captured August's headlines. There are many underlying causes for each phenomenon, but they are linked....
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How to Ruin Your Organization in 25 Minutes or Less
Photo caption: Considering the "Wilt, Wilt" Story Board at the U.S. Summer Conference of the Center for Innovative Cultures. I have never worked at Amazon so I cannot speak to the veracity of the...
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5 Easy Steps to Top-Notch Customer Service
Business owners often scramble to find technically competent employees to fill positions, so our desire for a truly customer-friendly workforce can sometimes be put on the back burner. This is a risky...
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Are you Managing Your Business or Leading Your Organization?
Photo by TassieEye licensed under CC By-NC-ND 2.0 Managing a business is very different than leading an organization. This distinction may sound subtle or merely seem like semantics. The fact is,...
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Taming the Elephant on Wall Street
Wall Street likes it simple: promote bull markets; avoid bear markets. But there's now an elephant on Wall Street, and few are daring to talk about it. In you hadn't noticed, the market has been...
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Part I of 2: Boost Your Emotional Intelligence: Take The Five Day EQ Challenge
"Empathy occurs in the moment one human being speaks with another." - Alfred Adler, Understanding Human NatureWe know that Emotional Intelligence can be learned, but like everything there's no quick...
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5 Tips for Great Public Speaking
I very publicly share how public speaking has been a massive challenge for me. I've spent many years telling myself that I couldn't do it, and it was only relatively recently that I realized this...
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5 Truths: What Women Really Want but Are Fearful to Say
While the media puts heavy focus on equal pay, workplace advancement and getting a seat at the table -- all things which are needed -- there is a whole subculture of women who actually want something...
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