The Boss of You

We do! And we espe­cially love Cup­cakes Take the Cake, an all-cupcakes-all-the-time blog co-authored by Rachel Kramer Bus­sel, Nichelle Stephens (who by the way has a great busi­ness blog of her own), and Alli­son Bojarski. We’ve known Rachel for years, from back in our Soap­box­girls day (and before she became a hugely famous writer), so […]

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I received an email a cou­ple of weeks ago from a woman I attended uni­ver­sity with, years and years ago. Although we still know peo­ple in com­mon, we hadn’t stayed in touch really, until she emailed me to tell me she was set­ting up her own PR com­pany and had wan­dered into the bookstore’s entrepreneurship […]

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How excited are we to be guests at The Lab at Veloc­ity Art and Design in Seat­tle next week? Very, very excited.
I mean, for starters, I fell in love with their web­site ages ago, and they carry just about every­thing Roost makes, and I sus­pect I may come home with an item or two for […]

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I’m always on the look­out for busi­ness books that embrace, pro­mote & cel­e­brate small & locally-owned busi­nesses. I don’t believe that small & local are always or inher­ently bet­ter, but I have a strong affin­ity for spend­ing my dol­lars on prod­ucts and ser­vices that help sup­port the liveli­hoods of good peo­ple, and sup­port­ing my neighbours […]

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I love it when my professional-geek life and my author life inter­sect. I was check­ing out the new issue of the esteemed web design e-zine A List Apart today, and came across Natalie Jost’s excel­lent arti­cle on work­ing from home, “Walk­ing the Line When You Work From Home,” and the lessons therein def­i­nitely apply to […]

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We’re a lit­tle late in post­ing about this, but we’re very pleased to have been fea­tured in The Finan­cial Post. Many thanks to Wendy McLel­lan, who wrote the arti­cle and did a great job of con­vey­ing the key mes­sage of The Boss of You in clas­sic pithy journalist style.

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The ever-inspiring Cin­na­mon Cooper of Poise.cc has writ­ten an absolutely lovely post about The Boss of You at her blog. Those who’ve read the book might rec­og­nize Cin­na­mon as one of the women we inter­viewed for the book, and her advice and sto­ries are pep­pered through­out The Boss of You. Cin­na­mon has been read­ing the […]

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A client called me the other day to tell me she’d spot­ted a seller on eBay who had lifted ele­ments of her prod­uct design — but even more bla­tantly, was adorn­ing her eBay pages with graph­ics she’d stolen from my client’s web­site. In these days of dig­i­tal every­thing, it’s eas­ier and eas­ier to rip off […]

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Did any of you see the New York Times arti­cle, “Would You Hire Your Hus­band?”
Col­lect­ing a hand­ful of exam­ples of men employed by their wives’ busi­nesses, the story has such a per­pet­ual tone of amaze­ment, I half expect the author’s face to be frozen into an o-mouthed, eyebrows-raised mask of sur­prise. The sub­text that runs […]

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Author Michelle Good­man, of Anti 9-to-5 Guide fame, has a pair of free passes to the two-day Biz­Jam con­fer­ence in Seat­tle that are up for grabs via her blog. Biz­Jam looks to be a really cool busi­ness con­fer­ence (by which I mean actu­ally rel­e­vant for small-scale, indie busi­ness own­ers, and worth tak­ing the time away […]

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