Contributed by Denise Shull, Author of Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk
We have all heard it a thousand times: “take the emotion out of it.” We have heard it from our bosses, our friends, and certainly from our financial advisors.
Yet as far as investments go, analysts now give “conviction” [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
More and more corporate boards are seeking to diversify their ranks. Yet, in the US only 15.7% of board seats are held by women. The data published by Catalyst, shows companies with three or more women board directors in four of five years outperformed companies with zero women board directors [...]

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Contributed by JJ DiGeronimo
Have you often wondered why so many are updating, posting, reading and retweeting?  It could be a full time job if you think about all the information created daily.  For some it is – and for some of us it is a way to stay aware of the trends, reports, and news [...]

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Contributed by Geraldine Gallacher, founder of the Executive Coaching Consultancy, London
The United States and United Kingdom share many common bonds and approaches to business. However, in the area of maternity leave and support for working mothers we have widely differing views.
I recently spent time in New York to assess how US enterprises approach the business [...]

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By Caroline Turner, author of Difference Works: Improving Retention, Productivity and Profitability through Inclusion
This is not news to anyone who frequents this site: women are still not proportionally represented at the upper levels of business. Women represent about half of entry-level employees and lower level management positions. But at each level up the corporate hierarchy, [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
You’ve set your New Year goals. You’re highly motivated to achieve them. And then something happens and you lose steam. Meet the culprit. It’s called resistance. And it lies in each of us. The fact is the #1 factor standing between us and achieving our goals is ourselves. We often [...]

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Contributed by Mona Pearl
Opening up your eyes to see the bigger picture of the global marketplace is one of the most important steps leaders in the 21st century can do to help their businesses succeed.
Unfortunately, it is also one of the easiest and most devastating actions they can fail to take. For those who spent [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
Does this situation sound familiar? You have worked hard to climb the corporate ladder. You’ve had to burn the candle on both ends to get there. When you get to the corner office or the next rung in the ladder, after the initial euphoria of meeting your goal wears off, [...]

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Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly PhD
I was worried after my most recent coaching session with “Rina.” We had been prepping for her performance review as a top-level financial advisor, and I didn’t have much time to make a few key points. Rina was talking about her hard work and hurt feelings rather than about [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
It’s the end of the year. You’re scrambling to make the numbers, completing performance reviews for your people, finalizing business reviews so plans for next year can be fine-tuned. Sound familiar? For each of the last 20 years of my corporate career, as each year drew toward a close it [...]

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