My grandfather turned 90 years old this week.  As long as I’ve been alive, he’s been impossible to shop for.  Now that I’m a working mom, I have less time than ever to figure out what to get him, so I usually just include him in a family gift of tasty treats.  But the man has had quite the life, and this year I really wanted to ...

A few months ago, I sent a blogger I respect tremendously a copy of my new book, which he had agreed to review.  He passed it off to his summer intern, which was okay by me, because after all interns are often my target audience and I engage with this age group every day.  Said intern promised to have the review posted by the middle of ...

My son is almost six months old, and being the overachiever he is, is already beginning to crawl.  My husband and I hired a baby-proofing consultant to come to our house and tell us what we needed to do to each room so that Jonah does not choke, fall, get electrocuted, or pull a piece of furniture down on his head.  At the end of ...

So Bill Gates is preparing to retire as CEO of Microsoft. Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded Microsoft on April 4, 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to make and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, an early computer that was sold to hobbyists. Gates dropped out of Harvard University in his third year to focus on ...

In their 2008 Investor’s Guide, Fortune Magazine offered ten tips to help us prevent the heat of the moment from melting our better judgment. The tips form an acronym – Think Twice – and are worth keeping in mind no matter what you’re thinking about or what decision you’re trying to make. Take the Global View. Always keep an eye on where ...

[ImageAttachment] A topic that’s been coming up a lot in my discussions with twenty and thirty-something employees is empowerment.  Today’s younger workers want to come into a job and have the autonomy to take hold of projects and run with them self-sufficiently.  However, their baby boomer managers, more often than not, hold them back ...

[ImageAttachment]   This week, my friend Lisa Haneberg at Management Craft had a great post on ways to inspire others.  Here are some of the highlights:   Take a stand. Share your perspective and be open.  The most inspiring leaders have a strong vision for how things ought to be. Listen more, speak less.  Show ...