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My Five Favorite Blogs and Subscriptions for Spring-Summer 2013

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How do you keep up with the news? How do you stimulate your creativity, add an extra kick to your presentations and stay relevant for your career?  It’s a challenge. …

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What is it REALLY Like to do a Tedx Talk?: 3 Lessons I Learned

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For me, doing a Tedx talk was the professional equivalent of what I imagine having a brief crazy affair with a hot young thang is like! Consider the similarities. Doing…

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What Kind of Leader is Jillian Michaels and What do You Need from Your Leader?

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“Unless you faint, puke, or die, keep walking!” exhorts Jillian Michaels to contestants on TV’s Biggest Loser. I confess I have a love-hate feeling about Jillian Michael’s leadership style with…

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Boost Your Career by Becoming Your Own Chief Learning Officer

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So I was making a teepee for my Native American diorama the other night….. Well, sort of. Time for true confessions- I was actually watching the babysitter help my son…

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Organizational Behavior Tip: Please Don’t Sniff Me In the Elevator!

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Yesterday, my colleague sniffed me in the elevator again. Over the past 15 years of teaching at LMU, he has probably sniffed me in the elevator dozens of times. Here’s…

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Will Civil Rights for GLBT Employees be the “New Normal?”

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        Kissing: fun to do and entertaining to watch on TV.  After my first week back to teaching I was having a Professor Couch Potato kind of night:…

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What “ True Color” Should Your Mentor or Protégé Be?

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I am a big fan of using the True Colors assessment with my students and clients when I teach them about mentoring. The True colors provides a somewhat abbreviated version…

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How Much is a Mentor Worth? Is Mark Cuban the Grinch or kind Saint Nick?

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In this week’s episode of Shark Tank, the owner of one of my favorite local companies, LivingChristmas.com, went on Shark Tank. Now, I know I have no business watching TV…

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