Remember the good old Franklin Covey Life Planner? It was based on the strategy that you had to Define, Plan and Act on What Matters Most.
Its contents consisted of many different “workshops”, formulas and templates to help you both get and keep your life in order and to define your goals and personal […]
I had a cocktail with a friend last night at one of New York’s famed steak houses. As you might imagine, cocktail hour at such an establishment is so filled with testosterone, it could lift the Space Shuttle.
I was one of maybe 2 women in the place, and as conversation with my male friends […]
Because we sometimes don’t have the patience to wait for, never mind read, an actual review…we foolishly rely on New York Magazine’s goofy Approval Matrix — self described as: Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
That line immediately tells you how pompous we are and that you can […]
I often wonder about why and how I began The Pet Set. I mean, greeting cards for dogs? How did I come up with this, and more importantly, why now?
For as much self-persecution as I bring upon myself about “failing” at corporate life, it dawned on me recently, that maybe I outgrew […]
I know this topic has been discussed and analyzed ad nauseam, probably going all the way back to Cleopatra…but I feel I have to take a look at it as well.
Why are women so much better than men at multi-tasking? I believe the answer lies within the notion that growing up, men were told […]
Several years ago, while working at a large financial institution in NYC, I was given the responsibility to put together a marketing campaign directed at several hundred of the bank’s financial advisers.
In order to reach these folks, I had to get my hands on a one complete list of names. A complete list did not […]
If my day were a child’s song, it could be hummed to the tune of “Old Mac Donald Had a Farm”….hum it with me:
Old crazed lady has a house,
Me o me o my-o!
And in her house she just can’t work,
Me o me o my-o!
The dog is sick — the computer’s broke,
An angry customer here and […]
This is going to come off sounding so childish…but, I can’t help gloating.
I used to work in the department for a certain luxury company, whose 3-star emblem should be enough to give you a clue as to who they are.
Anyway, one of my responsibilities was to create, implement and manage their consumer catalogue for accessories. […]
Recently, my husband — who’d brought his Blackberry to the beach with him — noted that it was “amazing how much perspective you get when you step away from work for awhile…that you begin to realize how stupid a lot of what goes on at work is.”
My immediate thoughts were: #1 how the words beach […]
Seriously, whether you admire her or choose to make fun of her…there are times when one of Martha’s ideas truly “is a good thing.”
Recently, during my profoundly relaxing (or brain-cell-numbing) vacation, I caught some of Martha’s “Premier Week”! (I say that with all of the enthusiasm that peeling potatoes gives me.)
Doesn’t she sometimes look and […]
With the only pressing decisions I had to make over the last week were “should I make clams tonight or shrimp…?”, I actually didn’t have a succinct word in mind to describe our time away until — I saw a note from my b5 media colleague, : Hsien “…hope you had a relaxing time.”
That’s […]
Well, as most of you are all back from your vacations, nice and rested–we’re all raggedy and need to get out of Dodge, before we commit a crime.
So off we go to enchanting, Long Beach Island–a barrier island off the coast of Jersey. And if you haven’t been…don’t make fun. (Exit 63, if […]
Woohooo!
Today is the first day of school out where I live! The kids on the block; and their screaming and giggling and just general kookiness have subsided. Thank goodness…now I can get some business done.
But wait:
I wonder if all that racket hasn’t somehow contributed to my idea development?
After all, what can yield more creativity than […]
How many times have you used or heard the phrase at work — “it was just a mix-up in communications”?
When we’re young and starting out in our careers, we want to be heard. We want everyone to know how we think, what our plans are and what our contributions are to the firm. We’re probably […]
It’s amazing to me how the employer/employee relationship resembles the development of some romantic relationships.
I don’t mean an actual “chasing around the desk” cliche, I mean the emotions and thought processes that we may have known when pursuing a potential partner.
First there’s the kinetic excitement of the intial flirting: “Nice resume, you went to Yale?..what […]
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