The Boss of You

We’re hard at work on a near final round of book edits (next dead­line mid July, final dead­line mid August!) and as I worked on the lat­ter half of the book yes­ter­day I hit the “Cel­e­brate Your Suc­cess” sec­tion. Now, Lau­ren and I like to joke a fair bit amongst our­selves and peers that our […]

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I received a link to the Kiva web­site this morn­ing from a client who works in Com­mu­nity Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment. The site helps facil­i­tate micro-lending at a very indi­vid­ual level allow­ing indi­vid­u­als to loan funds to entre­pre­neurs and busi­ness peo­ple in the devel­op­ing world. You can read more about the pro­gram here, but I was personally […]

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Help­ing women get what they’re worth is a bit of a per­sonal mis­sion for Lau­ren and I. If had a nickel for every time we’ve sat with friends over a cock­tail or tea pep talk­ing them before they set their rates or the night before they go in to nego­ti­ate a salary raise, well I’d […]

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There’s a cer­tain glam­our about the phrase “ven­ture cap­i­tal.” It sounds seduc­tive, pow­er­ful, a lit­tle mys­te­ri­ous. The very con­cept of it plays into the myth of the high-stakes entre­pre­neur — she who risks every­thing on a dream.
In our indus­try, we’ve seen some inter­est­ing venture-capital sto­ries mate­ri­al­ize, and in gen­eral I’m pretty skep­ti­cal about the ben­e­fits of […]

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Every once in a while we field ques­tions from folks who ask us why we’re writ­ing a book specif­i­cally for women. They won­der if some (or all) of what we have to say might be rel­e­vant to folks of the male per­sua­sion and ques­tion why we aren’t plan­ning on address­ing men directly. In some ways […]

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Our pal and col­league in the busi­ness book cat­e­gory, Michelle Good­man is going to be on Feli­cia Sullivan’s Writer’s Revealed show this Sun­day. These two smart savvy chicks are bound to cook up plenty of wis­dom and wit, mak­ing it well worth a lis­ten. Plus! You might just win a free copy of Michelle’s book, […]

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Over the last month, the amount of com­ment spam we’ve received on this site has been increas­ing expo­nen­tially, to the point where it’s gone beyond an annoy­ance to being truly dis­rup­tive. As a result, we’ve changed our com­ment­ing struc­ture. We’ll be mod­er­at­ing com­ments from here on in, not because we want to con­trol what you […]

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In my ongo­ing attempt to reduce the amount of non-crucial email I receive, I have slashed the num­ber of email lists I sub­scribe to — but one of my email indul­gences is Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrol­ogy. No mat­ter what your views on astrol­ogy are, his writ­ing is a bril­liant exam­ple of out-of-the-box think­ing and […]

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