Posts archive for 2011

Economic Paradigm Shift

Cause of the Great Depression—the revolution in agriculture that threw millions out of work. Hello America! The U.S. must manage a similar shift in the “real” economy, from industry to service, or risk a tragic replay of 80 years ago. Have you stood on a cat walk, decked in hard hat, safety boots and all, watching while below you ~ concrete […]

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Why Workforce is Motivated by Flex

This week, Mom Corps CEO Allison O’Kelly was featured in, “7 Ways to Motivate Employees with Workplace Flexibility,” a post on Cali Yost’s “Flex and the C-Suite” Fast Company blog. Flex and the C-Suite is a column series that, “periodically showcases leaders who have made flexibility at work a key strategy for achieving smarter and better business results. In other words, […]

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Is Goal a Verb?

One of my very favorite movies is Pretty Woman with Julia Roberts. In the opening and closing scenes there is a crazy guy walking down the street yelling, “Everybody’s got a dream. What’s your dream, baby?” Pretty Woman is a modern-day Cinderella-style story. Julia’s character, for the most part, “falls into” the fairy tale ending. What luck. She really didn’t […]

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Gift from a Stranger

My family had the privilege of meeting a wonderful young man recently, Constantine.  Constantine is graduating from Stanford University with a M.B.A. and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard. The world is his oyster. Constantine was in Dallas for a job interview.  As he was updating us on his interview that day he asked me, “If I get this offer […]

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