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What Your ‘Life Story’ Really Says About You
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion famously wrote in “The White Album.” In many ways, Didion was right: Stories may not seem like a basic survival need, but our brains naturally tell stories as a way to give structure and meaning to our lives....
Billions’ Psychologist on People’s Misconception About Success
For some of Denise Shull's clients, being in a slump might mean losing millions of dollars of other people's money. Shull is the founder of the ReThink Group, a performance coaching group that specializes in clients on Wall Street. She's also one of the inspirations...
Denise Shull’s Revolutionary Approach To Risk
Plain and simple, these people say, Wall Street is too greedy. To me, though, that analysis rings false. It’s hollow, and far too simplistic. If we live in a world where scientists have learned to split the atom, medical researchers are designing drugs that alter our...
Business Is Fractal
Do you know someone who has “risen without trace” — who is successful, yet you can’t work out why? When I was a callow consultant, my first project was for an Irish conglomerate that had a supermarket chain. The manager running it was something of a figure of fun,...
THE RISE & FALL OF ORGANIZATION MAN
One of the surprise bestsellers of 1956 – frequently reprinted throughout the 1960s – was an epoch-defining book by William H. Whyte called simply The Organization Man. Those were the blessed days when books didn’t have to have subtitles to tell you what they were...
Engineering vs. Business
It’s a classic struggle – the logical, practical engineer butting heads with the uncomprehending, inefficient business major (see: all of Dilbert). Or wait – is it instead the visionary manager struggling to focus a socially inept engineer puttering off on a...
7 Challenges Women Entrepreneurs Face (and How to Overcome Them)
Entrepreneurship was once considered a man's domain, but the tide has shifted: More than 9 million U.S. firms are now owned by women, employing nearly 8 million people and generating $1.5 trillion in sales, according to 2015 data from the National Association of Women...
Four Advantages To Being A Female Entrepreneur
This is an article with several assertions that don't ring true in my mind. However, it does have some useful points - you be the judge. Being a woman has its advantages and its disadvantages, but when it comes to female entrepreneurship, I think women are moving into...
The female advantage
Given the mixed evidence - and the need for much more research - some caution against taking the case for female leadership too far. Companies should not expect that simply putting more women in corner offices or on boards will automatically improve performance,...
Women Entrepreneurs: “Turn Your Difference into an Advantage”
At the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the class Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Women began as a short seminar about a decade ago. Since then, it has been taken by hundreds of people, most of them women. Lecturer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist...