by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Feb 22, 2018
In a groundbreaking study of 5,000 successful employees and managers over a five-year period, UC Berkeley management professor Morten T. Hansen found that top performers have an extraordinary ability to persuade other people to buy in to their ideas. I visited Hansen...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Feb 14, 2018
If you’re pessimistic about the state of world today, Bill Gates and Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker have a message for you: “This bleak assessment of the state of the world is wrong. And not just a little wrong–wrong wrong, flat-earth...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Feb 13, 2018
Richard Branson has never been reticent to share his personal experience with dyslexia. In the opening sentence to a recent blog post, Branson writes, “I’m often asked how I went from being a dyslexic school dropout to founding many successful...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Feb 5, 2018
By the time you read this, chances are you’ve given up on your New Year’s resolution or it’s fading fast. By the eighth day in January, 25 percent of people who made resolutions have failed to keep them. By the end of year, fewer than 10 percent of...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jan 26, 2018
Steve Jobs was a master showman. In my opinion, Jobs was the best business storyteller of our time. Every product launch was brilliantly performed. Every move, demo, image and slide was in sync and beautifully choreographed. If I sound like I’m describing a...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2018
Alabama football coach Nick Saban gave himself and his Crimson Tide team a well-deserved break after winning the 2018 college playoff national championship in an overtime victory over Georgia. He gave them all of 24 hours. “In 24 hours you probably need to move...
