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Thanks for your enthusiasm, the YPI’s Kickoff with Elie Tahari is here! We are sold out for Monday’s event. For those of you registered to attend and expressed interest in volunteering, we have an opportunity for you! Please let us know if you would be willing to volunteer with registration for Monday, March 15th’s event. You would need to arrive at the Tahari Soho Showroom at 5:30 and be responsible just for checking people in and welcoming guests! For your efforts, you will have first dips on our future events- some which may be free of charge for you!

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In recent decade, more companies are focused on fostering an environment where employees are empowered to make strategic decisions and actions that affect the organization. Companies are embracing this new culture because it is the first step to become a customer-oriented company. This culture has made employees more competent and committed to their work. This has lead managers and leaders change their leadership style to “Delegating”.

This style not only has best of the best employees in the company but also helps the organization collectively accomplish beyond its limits.

Art of Ef…

Diane Sawyer has been in the news business for forty years. You would think after all that time she would look the wear of it, have lost the thrill of what got her there in the first place, be jaded and disillusioned. But she’s not.

I listened to her off the anchor desk interview with Oprah Winfrey last week. It doesn’t take long to figure out why she looks so good. It’s her passion. You hear it in her voice when she speaks of the fascination she still has “looking into the lives of people.” The joy she gets out of working at something where she knows she can make a difference.

Yes, I a…

This is the time I don’t wish on anyone. I’m not talking to the MBA candidate who had their act together, applied first round and just came back from admit weekend. I’m talking about the candidate who applied second round, is pulling her hair out waiting for the drip, drip, drip of interview invitations, or already had the interview and probably didn’t blow it. But we have no information. It’s that feeling of, “Should I have applied third round to other schools?” Or, “Should I have re-taken the GMAT for a fifth time?” Here’s the worst: “Should I refresh the Business Week or Beat the G…

When I first discovered the term “mommypreneur” I took to it pretty quickly. I still celebrate being a mother and a business owner, and the challenges that those dual roles play in my life, at home and at work. I recently learned that as a female C.E.O. of a high-tech firm, I represent less than 1% of the total private companies founded in a year. I knew I was an oddball, but I don’t think I quite realized to what extent. With so few others, it’s obviously difficult to find peers or even mentors. In fact, searches to connect with other pioneering mothers or successful young women are often …

We had a fabulous 85 Broads event at Hult in Cambridge on Thursday night. Got to meet some terrific MBA students and reconnect with some of our great members including Kathleen McQuiggan, Katherine Huang, Tara Faulkner, and Julia Yao Cooper. Hult is a little gem and if b-school is in your future you should definitely check out their program.

I also spoke at Tim Butler’s “New Path” program at HBS on Friday — was thoroughly jazzed by the women I met there and think Tim’s CareerLeader model is amazing.

I am always energized when I get the opportunity to speak and am more convinced th…

With staggering unemployment rates and job insecurity, many people have changed careers by necessity and others, by choice. You must learn to navigate the new normal of this job world and take ownership of your personal career destiny. Now more than ever employers want to see that you can bounce back and recover quickly from adversity.

Resilience is a key competency that employers value because it transfers well into the workplace. One constant in every career field is change. If you can show an employer that you can deal with change you can be seen as a valuable commodity to that organiz…

This blog is for people from every walk of life as it talks about ways to deal with the most common output of human interaction-“CONFLICT.”

How many of us have conflicts atleast once a week? I do!!

Conflicts are not always negative, they have a positive twist to it too. Conflict is the connection between change and growth!

However most of the times the conflicts are negative and argumentative. Choosing your battles wisely is a much better way of life than battling out every disagreement.You needs to “Pick your battles” right so you don’t wear yourself.If you pick your battles well, yo…

I read Amber Naslund’s terrific blog entry “How I Made $100K With Twitter” today. Great title to suck you in panting “how?!???” “really!!!”. Amber’s story IS about making money using the social web but it is NOT a fairytale story about how to get rich quick. How does Amber attribute $100,000 of income to Twitter? To summarize:

Step 1: She followed people on Twitter in industries that interested her – and she listened.

Step 2: Then she entered into conversations with these followers.

Step 3: Through these conversations she built relationships.

Step 4: And when it came time to tel…

David Paterson is keeping me up at night. Whether he remains New York’s governor is not my worry – I live across the country and even liked how he confessed his own foibles while taking office. Since then, the governor’s decline and alleged misuse of power have been sad. But what really troubles me is a more far-reaching sin: Paterson’s failure to stand up against violence. Asked about his girl-friend-choking aid, Paterson minimized, telling The New York Times that what happened was “like breakups you hear about all the time.”

Paterson’s right about one thing: relationship abuse is ubiqui…