Posts by Carol Ross
Who to Hang With
Michael Bungay Stanier, a coach I admire for his intelligence, creativity and business savvy, has written a great article, "Who’s Helping You Out?" He outlines his criteria for deciding who he spends his limited time with. And don’t we all have limited time? Here’s how Michael decides who to hang with: Who makes you laugh?…
Read MorePresentation Zen
I’m playing with Google Alerts–an automatic email notification on just about any topic you are interested in. You can identify the scope of searchable media (e.g., blogs) that you want scoured for the topic of interest. One of the topics I input was the book title, A Whole New Mind. Through this fun tool, I…
Read MoreRaising Women to Be Leaders
Rather than re-cap a WSJ article, I’ll point you to a blogger who has done that quite nicely. The story is about 4 sisters who have achieved positions in business that most people, men or women, never experience–CEO, Senior VP, President of major companies. The article points to the influence of nurture, how these four…
Read MoreOne Person/Multiple Careers
I recently emailed Dan Pink, author of A WHOLE NEW MIND, the link for this site. He coined the phrase “Boundary Crosser” in his book and I thought he would get a kick out of seeing what I’ve done with this. In the reply, he recommended a book that he thought I would enjoy, given…
Read MoreGrowing Older
A friend, George, read my featured article for this month and had this response: My life is changing as important, and loved, people in my life are dying off. I’ve kept a list, not too carefully, from 1995 (when I was 73), and the list of important people in my life who have died now…
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