by Nina | May 22, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Nina Simosko
My post on Comfortable Misery seems to have struck a chord with a number of people. Chris Young connects the impact that comfortable misery has not only on the individual but also on the company that they work for. Chas points out that it pays to do work that you love...
by Nina | May 21, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Glass Ceiling, Innovation, Leadership, Women
mirror, mirror Originally uploaded by Emu stardust Tom Davenport writes a blog over at Harvard Business Online, called The Next Big Thing. His latest post talks about the Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Business Gurus that I wrote about here, and responds to the...
by Nina | May 13, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Leadership, Nina Simosko
misery at work Originally uploaded by milktummy When it comes to jobs, far too many people are in a state of comfortable misery. This is the state wherein, according to Daniel Johnston’s book Lessons for Living, “you are miserable, but you have gotten used to it.” We...
by Nina | Apr 2, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Nina Simosko
1 Choose Friend Originally uploaded by PersonalSpaceInvader While this expression is often attributed to Hillary Clinton’s book about her vision for children in America, in all actuality it was the title of a children’s book a couple of years prior to Hillary’s book....
by Nina | Mar 14, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Glass Ceiling, Nina Simosko
This very interesting article from NY Times writer, Stephanie Rosenbloom, shows that a new generation of girls will radically transform the workplace. Think about this. The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 35% of girls (against 20% of boys) write...
by Nina | Mar 7, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Glass Ceiling, Leadership, Nina Simosko
According to a near two-decade research study of Fortune 500 companies (from 1980–1998) by Roy Adler, a Fulbright scholar and Professor of Marketing at Pepperdine University and one of a very select few awarded the distinction of Designated Fellow by the Academy of...
