Fortune 18/500=Thank Helen Reddy

October 28, 2011

Print This PostThere is now a record 18 Fortune 500 female CEOs.  The record number was achieved when it was announced earlier this week that Virginia (Ginni) Rometty would move into the CEO position at IBM.  Ranked 7 as one of the Most Powerful Women, Rometty will assume her position in January 2012 and current [...]

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Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: It Couldn’t Be Me

October 26, 2011

Print This PostSeptember was Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, a month that made me aware of the power of wonderful doctors, friends and family, and a positive attitude in a healing process.  The fact that I am posting this on a blog about management and the business world is because I want to share an experience [...]

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Prakash on Project Management

October 8, 2011

Print This PostMy teaching colleague, Prakash Rao, is the guest blogger today.  He brings his expertise and experiences as a Partner at Accenture, Senior Director at FXall, Senior Vice President at Hexaware Technologies, and other positions to the classes he teaches in the Management Department at the Zicklin School of Business within Baruch College.  This [...]

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Attributes of Job Satisfaction

October 8, 2011

Print This PostRecently, students in the “Organizational Behavior” class I teach took a short survey to rate the attributes of Job Satisfaction.  The pool of raters was small—just 13—but it offered insight into what college students who work full- or part-time want in order to be satisfied in their jobs. The highest and most consistent [...]

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My Relationship with Steve Jobs

October 6, 2011

Print This PostLast evening I heard from a friend that Steve Jobs had died.  I was sad, very sad.  He was too young, too smart, too wise, too much of a technology genius. My friend had called me on her iPhone, a device she recently bought and fell in love with immediately.  My relationship with [...]

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Irene Rosenfeld – The Most Powerful Woman

September 30, 2011

Print This PostKraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld is #1 on the Fortune Most Powerful Women List 2011.  Why? Watching a video on Why Kraft’s CEO is so Powerful narrated by Patty Sellers, Editor at Large at Fortune, shares what it takes for a woman to be at the top.  (NOTE:  In case you are wondering, I went [...]

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Do You Want to Text or Talk?

September 26, 2011

Print This Post“Texts avoid conflict,” among marital chatter according to Somini Sengupta in her blog post in Bits “One in Three Texters Would Rather Text Than Talk” (New York Times, September 20, 2011). Her article does not include texting in the business and academic worlds where using the shortcut to speaking can create more than conflict.  Texting [...]

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Managing a Decisive Moment

September 25, 2011

Print This PostA manager is like a photographer:  both are required to exploit a decisive moment, the instant you are to act in the time of a blink of an eye to change someone’s life, record a message, decide to make a large trade, etc. The image of the smiling and laughing couple to the [...]

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Baseball for All: Justine Siegal’s Mission

September 19, 2011

Print This PostColumnist Jim Murray wrote for the Sports Section of the Los Angeles Times and was the writer I wanted to be when I grew up.  Murray is considered by many as the greatest sportswriter ever to have a byline because of his word wizardry when describing the Dodgers, Angels, Raiders, and other teams in L.A.  [...]

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Marcus Jackson: Poet

September 17, 2011

Print This PostLeigh, It’s delightful to have met someone who cherishes the English language like you! Marcus Jackson wrote the words above on the title page of Neighbor Register, a collection of his poetry just published.  Marcus is the one, however, who cherishes words and combines them into wonderful harmony of emotions to bring his—and our [...]

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