When I was in first grade, I used to always want to be the line leader in class. I would get fussy and sometimes even get into mischief when I wasn't the line leader. But my teacher Mrs. Flayton would say to me, as she...
The times, they-are-a-changing. As a CEO, I've personally hired dozens of people in the last three years without looking at a resume (I use LinkedIn!). Social media has gone from non-existent to a vital part of most people's lives and careers in the last ten...
This morning, I sent my 10 year old and 6 year old daughters off to their first day of fifth grade and first grade in school respectively. They were up at 6:30am, showered and dressed by 7, and ready for school by 7:30. They insisted...
I just keynoted LinkedIn's Brand Connect Asia-Pacific '13 conference in beautiful Singapore, so I figured what better place to share my presentation from a LinkedIn conference than, well, LinkedIn! So here are the 7 simple rules I just shared about how to do amazing content...
Last week, Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson was fired after gossip tech blog Valleywag reported his homophobic, racist, misogynistic tweets he'd been tweeting for years. His tweets included phrases such as:-"In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of ni--ers....
"Leave me alone!"I said it to my boss at Radio Disney many years ago. I was a young, very high-performing salesperson, and he was my sales manager. Even though I was generating huge sales numbers, I was often late to work, or meetings, and every...
Content marketing is quickly becoming more than a buzzword - it's an essential part of every company's and salesperson's toolbox. You can create and share amazing content, but unless it's done with the right context as part of the right plan, it won't be effective.....
"Please, Sarah, you've got to be friendlier on the phones!"As soon as I said it, several years ago to one of my employees, I felt horrible. It wasn't so much that I had said it- it was how I said it, in front of other...
I sat in traffic in Boston, Massachusetts one cold fall morning 16 years ago, cursing myself, cursing the cars around me, and cursing the world. I had prepared so much for the job interview at the prestigious firm I was driving to – done research,...
I recently picked up a friend at the airport, and he enthusiastically told me, "I just met the nicest woman on the planet on my plane!""Awesome", I responded. "What was her name?""You know, I'm not sure," he told me."Ok, then," I continued. "What did she...
