Blogs About "WINning View"

My good friend, Jill Diamond of Lanartco, is an entrepreneur, business owner and consultant on topics of presence, communication and language. She recently posed this question on her LinkedIn profile: “Are You Doing Enough?” My initial reaction was a defensive one: of course I don't think I am doing enough! Ugh. Why can’t I be doing more? better? stronger? broader? I need to get out there...

It is a classic scenerio: I walk into a car dealership to inquire about trading in my car that is coming off lease for a new vehicle. First, the salesman strolls over and gives the twinkle-in-the-eye grin which I can only interpret as him assuming I will be an easy sale. Why? Because women are notorious for not knowing how to negotiate financial terms. I straighten up and...

I wrote this article a year ago-February 2008. Wow, have the times changed. Are we in a talent shortage crisis anymore? The state of affairs and rising unemployment might lead us to believe we have great talent walking the streets. While there might be more than usual, I will still venture to guess that companies are in dire need of the talented talent - male or female....

When I was a girl, I wanted to play with the boys: their childhood experience seemed to be emotionally unencumbered, with their primary focus being on strength in sports, skill at games, and hanging out with their buddies. Being a girl seemed more complicated: we would impose inconsistent standards on each other that shifted like the wind and often influenced by what our friends thought of us; some of us...

I often find myself watching my daughter with my husband and admiring the respect and gratitude she has towards her father and, just as importantly, how much he shows her in return. Having no father-figure in my adult life or any older male siblings, I am appreciative that she is blessed with such a hero - her knight, her Superman, and her mentor. Now, I can picture some of...

I love to quote Madeleine Albright: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” How often do we find that we’ve been undermined? Sometimes we are our own worst barrier on the roads to success and in creating a substantive change in the workplace... and worse yet, often we don’t even realize it.

Case in point, a true story that was...

The fall of 2008 marks seven years since the fateful day of 9/11. While some people may gradually feel more detached from that day as time elapses, I reflect on it - all the time. Being a survivor of the World Trade Center, sometimes each year that goes by is harder as I question what it is that I have learned about myself. In broader terms, what has...

I recently attended a funeral.  It was not for anyone I knew, actually.  I was there to support a friend.  Shortly thereafter, a long-time colleague of mine passed away, suddenly and swiftly.  While I have attended many funerals throughout my life and have had to say good-bye to too many people, I found...

I had the good fortune to attend the Emmy’s this year. If you listened carefully, you could hear me in the background cheering for Glenn Close when she won Best Actress for her role in the Sony series, Damages. Why? She nailed it when she said, “I think we’re proving that complicated, powerful, mature women are sexy, high entertainment and can carry a show…I call us the sisterhood of...

One of my passions is educating people on time and project management. I wrote this article to show that life has its hurdles...

The 5th season of the TV sitcom, Seinfeld, features the episode, The Stall, wherein Elaine is in a movie theater bathroom and asks a woman next to her to pass some toilet paper. All you can see on the screen are the stalls and their feet. ...