My post today on Inc.com, “How to Win an NBA Championship as a 66-Year-Old Grandmother of Five,” begins: How to Win an NBA Championship as a 66-Year-Old Grandmother of Five Knowing your values and living by them enables you to achieve the value of what others only dream of. This is a post about values, living by them, and achieving more through it. You read Inc.com. You value achievement. Let’s talk[…] Keep reading →

My post today on Inc.com, “Why Disaster Was the Best Thing to Happen to Me as an Entrepreneur,” begins: Why Disaster Was the Best Thing to Happen to Me as an Entrepreneur You want experience in people you hire and yourself too. Only the more useful the experience, the more painful it is to gain. Do you know how to tell how good at something someone is? I’ve learned: Clueless[…] Keep reading →

My post today on Inc.com, “Why 44 Percent of Top U.S. Executives Don’t Want To Hire You,” begins: Why 44 Percent of Top U.S. Executives Don’t Want To Hire You A survey of U.S. executives found 44 percent said Americans lack soft skills, which traditional education poorly teaches. Other methods work better, luckily. I went to business school mostly to learn business’s “hard” skills—ones we can quantify, like accounting and finance.[…] Keep reading →

My post today on Inc.com, “Avoid Taking a Job You Hate by Doing This in Your Interview,” begins: You could have learned in the interview why you’d hate your job if you’d had this perspective. Learn it and make your interviews productive. If you ever left a job you expected to love, or endured hating it, these words likely ring true for you: “People join good projects and leave bad management.“[…] Keep reading →

My post today on Inc.com, “2 Questions To Ask in Every Interview So They’ll Want You Back,” begins: Instead of trying to show off, making you look like a commodity, use these techniques to make interviews two-way conversations where they’ll want you back. Isn’t that what you want from an interview? If you want one thing most from an interview, you want the interviewer to want you back. If you want[…] Keep reading →

If persistence pays off, how far do you persist? How often do you persist (politely) until you’ve wrong an opportunity dry—absolutely, completely dry? As I wrote on Inc.com yesterday in “How to Build the Best Relationships With Both Leaders and Superiors,” people appreciate helping others—if you behave like you deserve it, but not like you’re entitled. A student of mine was applying to graduate school. She told me how she[…] Keep reading →

My post today on Inc.com, “How to Build the Best Relationships With Both Leaders and Superiors,” begins: Misunderstanding how we like helping others holds many back from building relationships with leaders and superiors. Getting their help can advance you. You get that meeting with that decision-maker/founder/CEO/titan/guru/expert who can make your project happen. You’ve dreamed of this chance for years. How do you interact with this person? If you’re like most[…] Keep reading →