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I was on the Read My Lips radio show the other day with my engaging host Bonnie D. Graham who asked me:  What is Yippee Index exactly??? I answered as often do:  The Yippee Index measures how [...]

Outside the window red and blue lights flashed and a line of red lights snaked its way toward our plane. The flight attendant spoke into the intercom.  “This is standard procedure for an [...]

My husband Umberto and I lived in Caracas for a dozen years.  As an executive and consultant to the US Embassy, I made presentations, wrote proposals and managed a household in Spanish.  But [...]

Last week I spent four days at Social Venture Institute, the amazing conference for 100 or so entrepreneurs and social enterprise leaders who are using business to change the world.  The [...]

Because I coach entrepreneurs myself, some people are surprised I need a coach.  Or, that I even have feelings of inadequacy or timidity. But of course I do!! And recently those feelings got [...]

When I was in my twenties, I’m a Baby Boomer, so it was a different world, I had the notion that when one “grew up”, that life somehow settled down to a predictable “happily ever after” pattern. [...]

Last Thursday I was watching the sun rise out of the Atlantic from the coast of South Carolina.  On Monday, I was watching the sunset in English Bay in Vancouver on the edge of the Pacific [...]

Is your boss grumpy or unappreciative? Do you have a co-worker who takes credit for your ideas? Is your company or industry in decline? Most of us don’t do anything about situations like these [...]

Do you have a dream to make the world a better place?  Build stronger neighborhoods, improve the educational system, change how we use energy, create access to capital for overlooked [...]

Are you feeling bored?  Do you want work that interests you? I have worked with lots of people who say: I’m bored with what I do. I’ve lost interest in ____. I’ve always done the same thing; I [...]