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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