We are all sales people. Regardless of the profession we’re in, if we want to influence any outcome, business or personal, we are in the selling business. I am in Bali for Spring Break holidays [...]
Does fear of failure hold you back? True story. A few months ago I had a rather large speaking engagement. It was with an audience larger than I usually speak in front of, with content I hadn’t [...]
Sharon Melnick is a New York-based consultant for Transformational Leadership Inc. She is also the CEO of Horizon Point, Inc., a talent development coaching and training firm. Dr. Melnick is a [...]
This weekend I took my daughter and her friend to see the new movie “Oz The Great and Powerful” based on the classic book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. The occupational hazard of [...]
Do you have a personal brand? Trust me. We all do. “It’s what they say about you when you’ve left the room”, says CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. What if what they’re saying about you is killing your [...]
Does the juggle of the career and home life leave you tired and stressed? Many of us have read Anne-Marie Slaughter’s now famous article in the Atlantic “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All”. It [...]
If you’re a workaholic like me you wake up rearing to dig into your to-do list every day (this includes weekends). Secretly you know that you can’t possibly get it all done today, but no harm in [...]
These last couple of weeks I have been inspired by some amazing women who are transforming the world each in their own way. I wanted to share the wisdom of four of these women. They each have [...]
Watching Marissa Mayer on the new documentary “MAKERS: Women who Make America” this week, I couldn’t help but think we have a new face of a feminist leader. “MAKERS” is a 3-hour documentary that [...]
