When I was little, my mother used to tell me, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” In my teenage years, she declared, “You’d be perfect if you didn’t have a mouth.” My mother meant well. She was trying to raise a daughter that
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So, you want to feel cool as a cucumber under pressure, confident and poised when speaking in front of your senior leadership team (or any group), and project subject-matter expertise. This is what it means to have ‘Executive Presence’, which is essentially the ability to inspire confidence in those around
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You were fired. Maybe you deserved it and maybe you didn’t. Regardless of the circumstances, it’s a horrible feeling. And you are not alone. Even if leaving the job is a huge blessing in disguise (and it often is, so congratulations!), there is a mixed bag of emotions that can
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The number one complaint I hear from my clients is they don’t have enough time. There is major frustration towards the scarcity of time. It’s as if we think time is secretly plotting against us, taking minutes away from our day and giving them to some other underserving person. Yet
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It’s been a little over a year since I deleted my Facebook profile. It was an emotional decision that, like most break-ups, was long in coming. It wasn’t a stoic move to be more productive or to curb a phone addiction. I didn’t put much thought into the repercussions. I
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