The Boss of You

Did any of you see the New York Times article, “Would You Hire Your Husband?”
Collecting a handful of examples of men employed by their wives’ businesses, the story has such a perpetual tone of amazement, I half expect the author’s face to be frozen into an o-mouthed, eyebrows-raised mask of surprise. The subtext that runs […]

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We’ve all been in a situation where we’re looking for some thing/service to solve a problem. It might be as simple new cel phone that promises features that will make your life oh-so-much simpler, or a new faster internet connection that will allow you to get things done sooner, or even a new account with […]

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A news story about women business owners and their trend towards being more willing to lean on friends and colleagues for advice than their male counterparts came across my news feeds this afternoon. The study was commissioned in Australia and found that “women are much more likely than men to consult other business owners and […]

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Heard this story on the radio this morning and thought it was an interesting lesson for employers (and managers, for that matter):
Workers Who Feel Trusted Will Boost Sales and Provide Better Customer Service: Study
Companies that communicate their trust to employees will see superior sales and customer service performance, says a psychology researcher from Sauder School […]

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morning snuggles (photo by emira)
I’ve been catching up on an interesting dialogue taking place in the geek-business blog world. It started with a post about how to save money running a startup, wherein its author, Jason Calacanis, posited one money-saving tip that raised a few hackles.
“Fire people who are not workaholics,” he wrote. […]

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Emira and I are both a little, shall we say, to-do-list-centric. We both rely heavily on our to-do lists to get through our days, because a typical day for us requires us to wear many hats, and frankly if we tried to keep all that stuff in our heads we would probably go a little […]

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A friend of mine sent me an email recently containing several quotes from Carlos Castaneda, and a few of them struck me as particularly relevant to my work life at the moment. (I have taken the liberty of replacing every instance of “man” with “woman,” because I’m sneaky like that.)
If a warrior is to succeed […]

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MIMOSA Originally uploaded by hexion
When you run your own business, a lot of people (mostly the ones who aren’t entrepreneurs) will make comments that manage to sound both admiring and a little snide — for example, when you tell them you’re heading home early (typically after pulling seven straight ten-hour days), they’ll say something […]

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We’re back! Back from a month-long blogging hiatus (more on that later), back from a short trip to Seattle (to see Felicia’s book reading, hooray!), and back to focusing on this book we’ve got coming out in a few short months.
We’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to get this site moved from a […]

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I’ve come across a couple of stories lately about high-rolling women entrepreneurs — that is, women who are breaking the stereotypes of female business owners playing for small stakes. My first stop was Inc.’s blog, Fresh Inc., where Athena Schindelheim posted a couple of weeks back about the Make Mine a Million program. From […]

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