The Boss of You

I love menswear. I mean, I loooooove menswear. I’m not sure how my fas­ci­na­tion began, but it may just be genetic. My pater­nal grand­fa­ther owned a menswear shop in Peter­bor­ough before I was born, and my father was pre­dictably well-schooled in the fine art of wear­ing a suit and tie. My brother is as comfortable […]

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Since Alex had a post up at the Har­vard Busi­ness Blog, I’ve found myself check­ing in there reg­u­larly for what is, not to sur­pris­ingly, great thoughts on busi­ness. And by “great thoughts” I mean ideas and analy­sis around entre­pre­neur­ship, lead­er­ship and busi­ness that apply to small busi­ness, inno­v­a­tive busi­ness and well gen­er­ally the kind of […]

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Apolo­gies for the late notice on this, but I’m appear­ing at Crave Shop Sym­po­sium next Mon­day (March 30th); it’s a one-day con­fer­ence for entre­pre­neurs, with a dis­tinct focus on women. (Though it’s not explic­itly aimed at women, the Crave Com­pany — those fab­u­lous gals from Seat­tle who are behind the Crave Par­ties and Crave Books, […]

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I’m very excited to announce that Emira & I are going to be guest-blogging over at one of our favourite blogs, design*sponge; as I hinted not-so-subtly a cou­ple of weeks ago, we’ll be con­tribut­ing to Grace’s new Biz Ladies sec­tion, which focuses on nur­tur­ing local com­mu­ni­ties of women run­ning their own art and design-based busi­nesses.
Those […]

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There are so many awe­some Seat­tle events hap­pen­ing all the time… sadly we have only so much time to spend dri­ving back and forth and play­ing “spot the crazy patri­otic bumper sticker” in the bor­der line­ups. (The Wash­ing­ton state high­way signs exert a strong pull on me, though. My favourite reads, “LITTER AND IT WILL […]

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A num­ber of dif­fer­ent influ­ences have inspired me to write more here about HR for the self-employed. Partly it’s that that’s where my head is at a lot these days — we’re hir­ing & man­ag­ing more employ­ees at Raised Eye­brow than ever before, and it’s got me think­ing about what work I really, truly want […]

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Do you travel for busi­ness? It’s not some­thing we do a lot of — most of our clients are local — but for those who are on the road a lot, effi­cient plan­ning and effec­tive use of your travel time make a huge dif­fer­ence to the return on your travel-dollar invest­ment.
Our friend and esteemed colleague, […]

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Those of you who’ve read our book know that we cel­e­brate IWD as a stat in our own busi­ness, which means we’re tak­ing this com­ing Mon­day off in lieu of the Sun­day event itself. We started the IWD stat as a kind of cheeky perk when it was just the two of us. A stat […]

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I got sucked into the New York Times’ wage gap graph because of the title: “Why Is Her Pay­check Smaller?” Turns out there isn’t room on the page for a mean­ing­ful answer to that ques­tion, but the info­graphic itself is very, very inter­est­ing.
As usual, the NYT design­ers have done a great job of dis­play­ing complex […]

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Design blog­ger extra­or­di­naire Grace Bon­ney (whom we had the great plea­sure of inter­view­ing for our book) has been a great cham­pion of women entre­pre­neurs, par­tic­u­larly those in the design field. She’s been orga­niz­ing Biz Ladies events for the past cou­ple of years, and they’ve been highly suc­cess­ful and pop­u­lar.
We’re very excited to note that although […]

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