Option B, Thanks Sheryl!
How’s your Option A going? Did you have plans to land a job that didn’t come through? Or end a relationship you thought was going to be long-term? Maybe you...
Posts Tagged: "good reads"
Design Thinking in Career and Life
Did you know only 27% of college grads end up in a career related to their major? And that in the United States, two thirds of workers are unhappy with...
4 Ways Non-Conformists Move the World
What did Martin Luther King Jr., Michelangelo, Steve Wozniak, America’s Founding Fathers, and Copernicus have in common, aside from changing the world’s trajectory? All nearly let the fear of failure...
Happy People Are Aware of These 5 Concepts
Jonathan Haidt, Professor in the Business and Society Program at NYU Stern School of Business, wrote The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom with the objective of addressing ten...
I Know How You Can Improve Your Grit
Those who know me and especially those who work with me know that “grit” is one of my favorite topics of discussion. In fact, 20 years ago I wrote one of my law school application essays...
Good Reads: Are You Confident?
Are You Confident? Confidence is important. In fact, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, authors of The Confidence Code, “found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with...
Good Reads: The Hard Thing about the Hard Things
I just finished the best business book I have ever read: The Hard Thing About the Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Horowitz knows business. He is co-founder of one of...
Good Reads: Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
I heard Drew Barrymore read live from her book Wildflower at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue over six months ago (I took that picture of her on stage, and...
Good Reads: Inside Out
I was fortunate enough to hear So-Young Kang, Catalyst, Founder & CEO of Awaken Group, a multi-disciplinary Transformation Design firm, speak at the 2016 MBA CSEA Asian Conference. After hearing...
Good Reads: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Prize winner in Economics and a psychologist, emphasizing human rationality and judgment. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, you’ll find answers to questions about your daily...
The #1 Skill to Help You Generate Great Ideas
I love writing. And I often use it to reflect on, think about, and deconstruct an issue or a problem I am facing. In Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate...
3 Tips for Getting Past Procrastination
You know you have a major project—it’s due in two weeks. You’re interested in the topic, and you look forward to launching into your research, but you just can’t get...
To Sell is Human
According to Daniel Pink and his book To Sell is Human, everyone is in sales. Selling is not limited to car dealers, insurance salesmen, and pharmaceutical reps. Stop and think...
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, Professor at the Harvard Business School, and a world-renowned innovation expert, asked himself this question when he was diagnosed with cancer; the same cancer that had taken...
The Beauty of Teamwork
Rowing is a grueling sport. It involves massive core strength, technique, early morning training, blisters, coordination, no timeouts, and the ability to compete through severe pain. Some rowers have described...