How many times do you react without thinking and wish you'd had the ability to stop and choose your response more intentionally? Don't feel alone if you said "too many times!" Sameer gives some great advice and perspective on this all-too-common challenge to developing your personal power in the...
What does an etiquette expert say when you ask her to talk about inner power? Kara Ronin gives us the answer. We love how Karen ties together inner power with outer presence. - InPower Editors Did you know that confidence isn't something you're born with? Shocking revelation—I know. In today's...
GUEST AUTHOR: ANN TIMMONS It takes a lot of humility to be a good leader. You have to be personally strong enough to hear bad news without blaming the messenger. Ann does a great job of helping us focus on this key leadership skill and reminding us why developing our own inner power is so useful...
Early in our career - or anytime in our career - we often encounter workplace challenges that seem overwhelming. We really like how Sheila breaks down an overwhelming problem into its piece parts with the socratic method to provide guidance for how to tackle big career challenges. The dragons...
It's no secret that being a working mom is a tough job, and everyone seems to have an opinion on the downsides. When many working mothers hear, "you can have it all," they also hear, "and since you don't have it all you must be doing something wrong." We want to honor Shana, at the...
Bringing more women into leadership requires that cultures change. Not because they're "keeping us out," but because business culture with more women is simply different than most of the ones that exist today. For that matter, virtually all leadership requires that we master the dynamics of...
Many of us face confusing times in our life when the career we chose isn’t what we want to keep doing. This happened to Steve Donahue when he faced a career crisis and his life as a motivational speaker ran out of gas. So he went in search of new meaning and discovered that all personal...
Stay-at-home-dads encounter all the stresses as stay-at-home moms, and maybe more. We really like Vincent O'Keefe's take on the how he and his working wife rescued each other and his review of Stew Friedman’s new book, "Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family". - InPower...
There are many types of power and financial power is certainly one of them. How is your portfolio? We like the way Lorraine lays out a simple framework for financial investment. How's your portfolio? - InPower Editors As an investment advisor, I have had many conversations with women, and upon...
With President Barack Obama nominating Brooklyn-born Janet Yellen for Chair of the Federal Reserve, the 67 year old is poised to become the first woman to ascend to this prestigious position in the 100 year history of the US central bank (the “Fed”). When she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate later...
