A major new project of The Philanthropy Roundtable!

The Philanthropy Roundtable: A mission to foster excellence in philanthropy, to protect philanthropic freedom, to assist donors in achieving their philanthropic intent, and to help donors advance liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility in America and abroad.


A Major New Project:  Philanthropy in America is a giant undertaking—every year now, more than $350 billion is handed by individuals, foundations, and businesses to a riot of good causes. Rates of giving are two to five times higher in the U.S. than in comparable nations. Privately funded efforts to solve social problems, enrich culture, and strengthen society are among the most significant American undertakings, and have been for hundreds of years.

There is, however, no definitive information source which places U.S. philanthropy in an appropriate context. This authoritative, highly readable new reference work will fix that. In a single printed volume, and easily accessed Web companion, we will chronicle the greatest achievements of American philanthropy, profile the most influential donors, and summarize the best ideas that have been thought, spoken, and written about charitable giving in our country.

 The Almanac will conveniently encapsulate the history, purposes, effects, and modern direction of private giving. It will lend missing perspective, and serve as a handy encyclopedic reference. People serious about donating money to good causes will consult it again and again as they refine their giving. And general readers attracted to fascinating history, quirky Americana, and lively biographies will enjoy the brisk narrative of this meaty new book.


How Philanthropy Changed My Life: American leaders who owe their successes to the creative giving in a free society. The Philanthropy Roundtable is America’s leading network of charitable donors working to strengthen our free society, uphold donor intent, and protect the freedom to give. Members include individual philanthropists, families, and private foundations.

“The Roundtable is the leading voice in philanthropy for objectivity, integrity, open-mindedness, and stewardship with a commitment to measurable results.”
—John M. Templeton Jr.


2015 National Forum on K-12 Philanthropy
The Ritz-Carlton • New Orleans, Louisiana
March 10-11, 2015


Top donors and leading K-12 experts from around the nation will come together for two days of thought-provoking conversation.

This conference, held 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, will focus on the greatest opportunities for philanthropists to achieve breakthroughs over the next 10 years.

Leading the effort, as they will visit schools that are disrupting the status quo in K-12 education and meet with education entrepreneurs who are bringing breakthrough innovation and progress to the field.
Learn more about this promising Event.



TAOAP: A compendium of the Great Donors, Great Achievements, Great Ideas, and Latest Facts on private giving in the U.S.


 “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
— Albert Pike

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"An authoritative roadmap to navigating the world's economy."

When Cultures Collide: 

Richard D. Lewis provides a truly global and practical guide to working and communicating across cultures, explaining how our own culture and language affect the ways in which we organize our world, think, feel and respond, before going on to suggest both general and specific ways of making our influence felt across the cultural divide.


There are penetrating insights into how different business cultures accord status, structure their organizations and view the role of the leader, alongside invaluable advice on global negotiation, sales and marketing. The book ranges from differences in etiquette and body language to new thinking in the area of international management and team-building in Europe and the USA, as well as covering challenging new geographical ground in Russia, China and the Far East.

 By focusing on the cultural roots of national behavior, both in society and business, we can foresee and calculate with a surprising degree of accuracy how others will react and respond to us. Lewis adds the often overlooked dimension of language – for example, how Japanese often react in a certain way because they are thinking in Japanese.

 When Cultures Collide gives you a greater understanding of what makes other people tick and enables managers to ensure that their policies and activities exploit cultural synergies and make the right appeal to their chosen market.
"An authoritative roadmap to navigating the world's economy."
The Wall Street Journal

RDL:  "A working knowledge of the basic traits of other cultures (as well as our own) will minimize unpleasant surprises (culture shock), give us insights in advance, and enable us to interact successfully with nationalities with whom we previously had difficulty."
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Showcase Your Inner Awesome:
 Understanding people is the most important life skill a person can have. Yet, we are not taught people skills in school. Nor do our parents sit us down and teach us how to interact effectively. If you want to win the deal, get the date, negotiate the sale or influence others you have to understand the science of people.

 SoP: You can’t succeed in business, life or love without mastering people skills.

“A Snapchat what?”

An original promise of social media was that it mimicked real life. Sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram offered places to capture and share your memories, but after using them for several years, I feel like someone who was sold a lemon by a used-car salesman.

These social media sites have become a highly edited, cropped and filtered version of real life. And the fact that they promise perpetuity only makes them worse.

But there’s a social media tool that, while it’s been around a while, I’ve recently become borderline obsessed with: Snapchat Stories. Readers under 14 can skip the next couple of ex-plainer paragraphs. The rest of you are probably asking yourself, “A Snapchat what?”

 Snapchat Stories can either be private, only viewable by your friends, or public and seen by anyone. But unlike other social video services, and here’s the best part, Snapchat Stories last 24 hours and then — poof! — they’re gone. Full Article By NICK BILTON via NYT.

There are few better ways to start a new year than picking up some fresh perspectives to put into action. Here's a sneak preview of 15 exciting books on business and behavior that will hit the shelves in the first half of the year. 

Jeff Boss: My dad always used to tell me that the difference between the “you” now and the “you” 20 years from now will be the places you visit and the people you meet. I would also add baldness and gray hair to that, but they don’t sound as cool.

He was right. Whether you meet someone in person or read a book he or she authors, people are pivot points that enable learning and foster personal growth for others.
8 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read in 2015 . 


 Mathew Carpenter is desperately tired of his product: "Hi guys, I'm the founder of this website. Please stop buying this horrible glitter product — I'm sick of dealing with it. Sincerely, Mat." Is Begging People To Stop Using His Service.

“Leaders don't force people to follow— they invite them on a journey. ”
— Charles S. Lauer .

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Redefining what it means to be successful in today's world:

 "Renewal is not for slackers; renewal is a way to increase your capacity, to be more effective."

        In Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case.

The Third Metric; When you stop … if you ever do…you sense something isn’t quite right. You have a long list of accomplishments that bring great satisfaction – deals, causes, and outcomes that are better because you poured your heart into them. Yet you’ve been giving and giving to every other good endeavor but yourself. You’re depleted. There’s no rest. There’s no respite. There’s no end. It doesn’t have to be that way. You CAN redefine your life to include a Third Metric -- your well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. Thrive invites readers to hit a pause button in their stressful race for job advancement to enable them to focus on health, wellbeing, giving back, and personal fulfillment. A stress-reducing tool for real people.


Arianna Huffington's personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye — the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep. As the cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group — one of the fastest growing media companies in the world — celebrated as one of the world's most influential women, and gracing the covers of magazines, she was, by any traditional measure, extraordinarily successful. Yet as she found herself going from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram, to find out if there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion, she wondered is this really what success feels like?


 As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success — money and power — has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected to the world 24/7, we're losing our connection to what truly matters. Our current definition of success is, as Thrive shows, literally killing us. We need a new way forward.

In a commencement address Arianna gave at Smith College in the spring of 2013, she likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later we're going to topple over. We need a third leg — a third metric for defining success — to truly thrive. That third metric, she writes in Thrive, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion and giving. As Arianna points out, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success. They don't commemorate our long hours in the office, our promotions, or our sterling PowerPoint presentations as we relentlessly raced to climb up the career ladder. They are not about our resumes — they are about cherished memories, shared adventures, small kindnesses and acts of generosity, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh.

 In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and raising two daughters — of juggling business deadlines and family crises, a harried dance that led to her collapse and to her "aha moment." Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep, and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging, and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplace, and our lives.

 "Media mogul Huffington lays out steps to creating a lifestyle where success is measured not by money and power, but something more meaningful."  Thrive is one of The Season’s Best Business Books:

From sobering reflections on the Great Recession, to an exposé of shady Wall Street practices, to inspirational advice from self-made leaders, this season’s best business books offer something for every reader looking for insight into how money works and how to make more of it.  
Posted by Joel Cunningham


 As You Age, Will Social Media Make You Happier or Lonelier?
The life of a retired senior can be a quiet one, with family and friends spread far and wide. But gaining mastery of the digital world at this later stage in life can mean the difference between suffering in isolation and leading the life of a (virtual) social butterfly.

Over the last two years, several studies have shown that seniors engaged with technology and connected through social media tend to have higher self esteem and are less likely to fall into depression, especially those living alone or in a retirement home. Read Article: 'Why You’re Never Too Old to Use Social Media'
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Introspective writing: does it keeps people alive and well? "This is not a replacement for people or human contact." 


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Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload:

“The Organized Mind”

 In the Information Age, data overload can be downright suffocating. Each day, average Americans are bombarded by the equivalent of 174 newspapers of data; five times as much information as we processed daily in the mid-eighties. The book by neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitan (This is Your Brain on Music) schools readers on cutting-edge brain science that can help them hold the reins even under the constant onslaught of information. By combining fascinating facts with practical pointers, The Organized Mind keeps your attention even as it teaches you to manage your life-and remember when to pick up the kids.

 
“information overload.”
 It reminds us of tweets, texts, emails, the endless stream of interesting articles on Facebook, those viral videos we can’t help but click on, the numerous phone photos and videos we take, Secret posts, fleeting Snapchat photos and more.

 But actually the cognitive flood can be even simpler than that. By one calculation, we’ve created more information in the last 10 years than in all of human history before that.

All of this is more information than the brain is configured to handle. The conscious mind can pay attention to three, maybe four, things at once.



Considering that Americans took in five times as much information every day in 2011 as they did in 1986, we have to make a conscious effort to beat back the flood. Here are Levitin’s top 10 tips for thinking straight, overcoming procrastination and putting in less time but getting more done.  Source: Forbes Contributor Laura Shin

The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up.

But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow. In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel—and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time.

With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives. This Is Your Brain on Music showed how to better play and appreciate music through an understanding of how the brain works. The Organized Mind shows how to navigate the churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with the same neuroscientific perspective.

Meet The Author: The Praise

 

DANIEL J. LEVITIN, PhD, is the James McGill Professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University—where he also teaches in the graduate school of business—and dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI. The author of two New York Times bestselling books, This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs, he splits his time between Montreal and Orinda, California.  

DJL holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication. Before becoming a neuroscientist, he worked as a session musician, sound engineer and record producer. He has written extensively both in scientific journals and music trade magazines such as Grammy and Billboard.

 “Lost your keys or glasses? Blame your brain.”

Critics of every expansion of information access (writing, printing press, TV, Internet, social media) warn that the information expansion has gone too far and will make us stupid.

While disagreeing, Levitin admits that brains evolved to focus on one thing at a time and filter out distractions, but this “attentional system” is outdated when confronted with today’s avalanche of input. Memory is also unreliable; worse, we often refuse to believe it. Most Americans, President George W. Bush included, remember watching TV on 9/11 and seeing two planes striking the WTC towers 20 minutes apart.

This is a false memory, however; videos of the first plane didn’t appear until the following day. Levitin fills a third of his book with insights derived from neuroscience. In the remainder, he delivers advice for organizing your life by “shifting the burden from neurons to the outside world.” He provides imaginative suggestions involving filing systems, labels and multiple computers, as well as tactics to determine the usefulness (i.e., truth) of the excess of information in today’s media.A prolific genre of books covers this subject, but Levitin holds his own, and his examination of brain function stands out.

— Kirkus Reviews

“Until 1600, the typical European home had a single room, and families would crowd around the fire most of the year to keep warm.”― DJL


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What MBA playbook?; Google, its success speaks for itself:

                                        

                                    HOW GOOGLE WORKS

                                            The rules for success in the Internet Century

 

 "We want Google," said one of its founders, "to be the third half of your brain." Over the past decade,
two of the prime movers in achieving that goal were ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg, the authors of this book. In this page-turner, mind-elevating primer, they answer the question that beckons every entrepreneur dreamer: How do you make a $60 billion corporate giant thrive—and expand? Their responses are no pie-in-the-sky generalizations. They write with pertinent specificity about matters that concern every business owner and, every manager: corporate culture, decision-making, communication, innovation, talent-finding, and encouraging employee creativity.

 In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. HOW GOOGLE WORKS explains how to do just that.

Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago as proven technology executives. At the time, the company was already well-known for doing things differently, reflecting the visionary—and frequently contrarian—principles of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. If Eric and Jonathan were going to succeed, they realized they would have to relearn everything they thought they knew about management and business.


In a new book, “How Google Works,” Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, the company’s former vice president of products, describe how the company steers its workforce, offering their experience as a guide to managing the most prized resources in tech:
engineers and “smart creatives.”Both executives started at the company more than a decade ago when it was a much smaller place; today it has roughly 50,000 employees.

In a recent interview with At Work, the co-authors discussed their management strategies, their go-to interview questions—and how BlackBerries became the flash point for one of the most contentious debates in the company’s history.


Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. HOW GOOGLE WORKS is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Eric and Jonathan learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers, and that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted employees whom Eric and Jonathan dub "smart creatives."

Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims ("Consensus requires dissension," "Exile knaves but fight for divas," "Think 10X, not 10%") with numerous insider anecdotes from Google's history, many of which are shared here for the first time.

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Written by insiders from page one, the stories, whether about the early days at Google or the company's unusual, occasionally outrageous, but brilliant business practices, are irresistible. Turn off your phone, lock the door, and settle down for an entertaining and educational book about the company everyone wonders about.

In interview, Schmidt And Rosenberg talk about how consumers have more power than ever before, how Google made them rethink how companies can be built, the importance of attracting the best people, what the attributes of a strong corporate culture are, and how to create disruption in any industry. Full Article by Dan Schawbel.

 "One mistake companies make when it comes to disruption is to believe it won’t happen to them."

Where's Google Next?
 Onstage at TED2014, Charlie Rose interviews Google CEO Larry Page about his far-off vision for the company. It includes aerial bikeways and internet balloons ... and then it gets even more interesting, as Page talks through the company's recent acquisition of Deep Mind, an AI that is learning surprising things.


Charlie Rose: When I close conversations with lots of people, I always ask this question: What state of mind, what quality of mind is it that has served you best? People like Rupert Murdoch have said curiosity, and other people in the media have said that. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have said focus. What quality of mind, as I leave this audience, has enabled you to think about the future and at the same time change the present?

  

 Larry Page: You know, I think the most important thing -- I looked at lots of companies and why I thought they don't succeed over time. We've had a more rapid turnover of companies. And I said, what did they fundamentally do wrong? What did those companies all do wrong? And usually it's just that they missed the future. And so I think, for me, I just try to focus on that and say, what is that future really going to be and how do we create it, and how do we cause our organization, to really focus on that and drive that at a really high rate? And so that's been curiosity, it's been looking at things people might not think about, working on things that no one else is working on, because that's where the additionality really is, and be willing to do that, to take that risk.

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 ATM fees surge again
 It's more expensive than ever to get your hands on your own money. People are getting smarter about the money problem. This ATM is quite smart, it may surprise you.

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Noise to Ignore on Your Way Up: #Biz, it's time to rethink the rules

                             The dynamic duo blows up the business rules:

  
JANET KESTIN and NANCY VONK spent thirteen years as co-chief creative officers of Ogilvy & Mather Toronto. They delivered world-beating results for global brands like Unilever and Kraft, including Cannes Grand Prix-winning work for Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty and a Grand Clio for "Diamond Shreddies." They are the authors of Pick Me, the ad industry advice column "Ask Jancy" and frequent contributors to several publications, including Fast Company. In 2012, they were named among Ad Age's 100 Most Influential Women in Advertising. Now with Swim, their new creative leadership lab, they approach leadership training a little differently. Well, a lot differently.

 In their book, "Darling You Can't Do Both: And Other Noise to Ignore on Your Way Up," the creatives behind real beauty at Ogilvy & Mather, Janet Kestin and Nancy Vonk, trace the campaign's roots while making a compelling argument for why it's time to rethink the way women work.

                          JANET KESTIN and NANCY VONK / CREDIT: HARPER COLLINS

In the early 1990s, as a newly minted creative team, we managed to incur the disdain of the advertising establishment right out of the gate when we shattered some time-honored rules in creating a campaign called "Dove Litmus Test." It proved to be pioneering. Not only did we help sell a stupid amount of soap, but "Litmus" paved the way for Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, which reached millions of people and sparked a global debate about our culture's warped definition of beauty. For us, it ignited a personal interest in looking much more closely at what women are up against at home and at work. Read Full Article

Meet the dynamic duo behind the original Dove Real Beauty Campaign. They'll name the 17 rules covered in their upcoming book and explore in detail the two must-break rules most relevant to women in advertising.

“You guys have broken every rule of business success,
and that's a book!”

Janet Kestin and Nancy Vonk have built their careers on unconventional creative thinking. As the team behind Dove’s Evolution video, they famously stripped away the photoshopping, lighting and make-up to sell real beauty.

But after years of winning awards for rethinking brands, they realized that they wanted to spend more of their time rethinking the way we work-or, in many cases and places, the way our work doesn’t work for us, and especially for women. And so they tackled the problem in their hallmark style-by turning expectations upside down and shaking them. Soundly.



Darling, You Can’t Do Both, is a smart, relatable guide for all of the women who embraced the spirit of Lean In but were left wondering where to start-how could they, in all industries and at all levels, really start to change the institutions they work in from the ground up.

Janet Kestin and Nancy Vonk’s answer is that women need to start breaking rules they’ve always tacitly accepted, and start understanding how being a woman in business is an asset, not a liability. They argue that motherhood creates better leaders, that you should be letting the intern help solve your biggest problems and that networking isn’t just the icky business of golf clubs and business cards. Darling will spark a new thread of conversation about women in the workplace-one that isn’t about accepting defeat or blaming ourselves, but is instead about moving (and looking) forward.

 Critical Praise for Darling, You Can't Do Both
 "A guide to breaking the rules that stunt careers and wreak havoc at home. The how-to follow-up to Lean In."— Alan Webber, co-founder, Fast Company


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In South Florida, Ms. Graham-Campbell of Alikay Naturals recently made the biggest announcement of her career to her nearly 100,000 YouTube subscribers: Her line of organic hair creams, oils and conditioners for black women, products she had cooked up in her kitchen, was hitting the shelves of Target stores.

Ms. Graham-Campbell, 27, started her business with $100 as a college student, marketing her products on YouTube and selling them on Etsy. Now her videos can draw as many as 200,000 views from fans. “They want to know, who’s the face behind the brand?” she said. “Are you able to relate to my hair, are you able to relate to my struggles and to my journey of being natural?”

Most of all, she said, she loves hearing from women who notice her photo on Alikay bottles.

They tell her that they tell their children: “Someone that looks like you makes that product.” 

Full Article by NYT: Black Women Find a Growing Business Opportunity

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Google: Ten things we know to be true

The most highly qualified person is someone who has “been there, done that.”—

                                       Lisa Quast— Career Chic;

 Learn, Grow, Thrive:
 When searching for a career coach, business consultant/trainer, or pageant coach, your goal should be to find the most highly qualified person; someone who has “been there, done that.”  Career Woman, Inc. is a Seattle-based career coaching and consulting agency founded by the #1 expert in women’s careers, Lisa Quast, a certified career coach, mentor, business consultant, former Fortune 500 executive and award-winning author and blogger.

Career Woman Inc. a top choice for women who strive to grow professionally, maximize their job potential, resolve a workplace issue, develop a new career path, or for any company that needs a business consultant to help them develop their company or their talent. Lisa’s expert and firsthand guidance followed by an actionable step-by-step plan delivers proven results.


Lisa’s dedication to the advancement of women in business and the achievement of women’s personal and professional aspirations led her to found Career Woman, Inc. in 2005 to offer Career Coaching, Business Consulting, and Pageant Coaching based on her own experiences.

Lisa’s unique approach and successful results have propelled her to the forefront of issues related to women in the workplace. She is a blogger for Forbes.com and The Seattle Times, a frequent contributor to nationally published articles, and a sought-after speaker. Lisa is a certified executive coach and has a top-rated female focused career blog, winner of the 2012 and 2010 Stevie Awards for “Blog of the Year.” Lisa is also the award-winning non-fiction author of the book, “Your Career, Your Way!”


Your Career, Your Way is the book for all woman who do not want to trust their career advancement to luck. It is for women who want to take control of their career and achieve their aspirations. Achieving success requires more than luck, more than hard work - it requires a plan. Your Career, Your Way offers the roadmap to women's dreams by guiding them through the creation and implementation of a personal strategic plan using easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions.

One of Lisa’s favorite quote: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” And 'loved' Article shared by Quast. It’s been called the “hardest word,” but some women seem to use this word as everything from a way to interject their thoughts into a conversation to a way of prefacing any request for help. Career Chic, read and learn more about Lisa Quast.

Trusted friends can help you break the habit by quietly letting you know when you’re using “sorry” inappropriately. Knowing that you’re under another’s watchful eye is also going to make you more aware of your speech.  Sometimes, saying “sorry,” is easier than thinking about the word you really want to say, or becomes a way of softening your words or opinion before they’re even out of your mouth. If either is the case, be more careful to choose the word or phrase you really mean to say. Sometimes, instead of saying “sorry,” it’s best to not say anything at all. Full Article by @gwenmoran via FastCompany.

Business consultant Kathryn D. Cramer, author of Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do, says women are socialized from an early age to focus on relationships and nurturing. Any sign of strength can be off-putting, so they’re conditioned to soften communication that can be construed as assertive or aggressive. Apologizing before speaking--or in any situation where women must show strength or where there is potential for conflict--is one way of doing so.

 "In Lead Positive, Cramer has captured the secret to great leadership: the actions and words, based on positive thinking and integrity, that bring out the best in everyone around us. Instead of process and strategies, she shines the spotlight on what we can do and say to engage and create a truly cohesive workforce that is up to any challenge. Lead Positive is a valuable, original contribution to leadership thinking and learning with case studies that are original, on-point, and enlightening. Brilliant!"
—MARSHALL GOLDSMITH

 Kathryn D. Cramer, PhD, is passionate about possibilities and potential. She created and has dedicated her life to asset-based thinking (ABT), a way of looking at the world that helps leaders, influencers, and their teams make small shifts in thinking to produce extraordinary impact.

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“Either your company grows or it dies.”
—The Secrets of Business Growth

“When we go in a new direction, our immediate reaction is to use our memory and imagination to sabotage us, instead of serve us.We find all the reasons why this experience isn't a good idea or why this idea won't work.” Entrepreneur Helps 500 Americans Overcome Recession

“For a lot of people, I was an example that you can go in a new direction and change the trajectory of your work and your life,”— Greg Hartle; 50 States in 1,000 Days: An inspiring journey across America.

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