Lessons Learned: Dr Tachi Yamada on Managing Yourself and Others

How do you turn a battleship? You turn a battleship by making a directional commitment and staying the course, not wavering from it- Dr. Tachi Yamada

In a recent interview on NYT’s Corner Office series, Dr.

Take the sting out of the painful process of reinvention: 5 ways to take 1 step towards change

Opening quote from Grey’s Anatomy:The surgical scalpel is made of steel, sterilized, carbonized stainless steel. This is a vast improvement over the first scalpel, which was pretty much a sharp stick. Medicine is constantly reinventing itself. That means surgeons have to keep reinventing themselves, too. There is constant pressure to adapt to changes. It can be a painful process.... [Read more]

Using Life Principles to Do What Matters to You

Photo courtesy of Esther Dyson on Flickr

In Goodbye Career, Hello Success, Randy Komisar says “If you want to land the job of your dreams—even if you want to become a CEO—rid yourself of raw... [Read more]

Lessons Learned: Ursula Burns’ Path to CEO

Courtesy of Xerox CorporationAt the Most Powerful Women Summit,  when asked how she would tag herself, Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, responded the “Groomed CEO”. With roughly 28 years of experience... [Read more]

Carla A. Harris: Hard Earned and Hard Learned Lessons

Yesterday, I attended Brokering Change: A Wall Street Multicultural Women’s Exchange a great quarterly series hosted by Goldman Sachs.

Carla A. Harris was one of the keynote speakers. Harris is a... [Read more]