There is a scene in the film “The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio” starring Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson that struck me like a bolt of lightning. They are the parents of ten children just living their lives in a small town. She is a housewife and he is a machinist. The era is the happy days of the fifties spilling over into the early sixties. They call each other … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2011
Tackle the New Estate Tax Opportunities While You CAN
Guest post by Lena Rizkallah (learn more about Lena at the end of this post) It seems that the more things change the more they stay the same. Take the recently enacted Tax Reform Bill of 2010, which extended the Bush tax cuts and certain individual credits and incentives, business write-offs, and education and energy benefits. This bill helped to clarify certain tax rates … [Read more...]
What Did You Say?
I was turned onto a site (PG-13) this week that made me laugh out loud. This site is about funny and embarrassing text messages sent out due to erroneous auto-corrections made on phones and computers these days. As funny as I found these messages to be, alot can be learned from them. Take your time when sending a message, think twice about your recipient/audience and most … [Read more...]
Staff Expectations and Your Business
British Airways narrowly averted a disaster the holiday season when a vote to strike was held illegal by the British high courts. The company is facing a showdown with its employees and many believe that the root of the problem is an unrealistic attitude towards pay and privilege from the staff. The question rolling through every company is how do your staff’s … [Read more...]
TV Host Jane Velez-Mitchell Says: The Future is Female
PRESS RELEASE HOLLYWOOD, CA-- Americans are being lured into addiction. And what we're hooked on isn't necessarily illegal or even hard to come by. Prescription medications are making us high. Fast food is making us fat. The Internet keeps us constantly distracted with everything from gambling to porn, to compulsive social networking. Television seduces us into buying more … [Read more...]
Reminder – Enter to Win 2 Tickets to See ‘Play Dead’ in NYC
Don't forget to enter the contest here on WomenOnBusiness.com to win a free pair of tickets to see Play Dead in New York City. You can get all the details about the contest and enter here. Here's a reminder of what the off-Broadway play is about: You’re probably well past getting scared by haunted houses, but you haven’t been entertained in an abandoned-looking theater, … [Read more...]
Do You Feel As If You Are Swimming Upstream?
Are we taking advantage of the natural flow of an organization or are we swimming upstream? Below are two critically important topics for Women in Business 1- Are you working on the right things? 2-Do the right people know you are working on the right things? These two topics are important guiding rules for women navigating a career in business- particularly in … [Read more...]
8 Tips to Ace an Interview
Congratulations! It’s not easy to land an interview for a new position these days. The market place is overloaded with qualified applicants seeking employment, and the fact that you made it this far is indeed encouraging. But, you still need to ace the interview and it’s critical to do some preparation to showcase your talent and communicate how your expertise will … [Read more...]
Unconditional Fans
Win or lose, true fans don’t stop cheering for their team. Unconditional fans cheer for their favorite team to win again and again, to move closer and closer to their goals (beating a rival, clinching a series, winning a championship, etc). When our team is losing, we figure out ways to cheer for them some more (rally caps on!). And when they pull through, we share in … [Read more...]
New Job Posting on the WomenOnBusiness.com Job Board
A new job has been submitted to the WomenOnBusiness.com job board. Interstate Batteries out of Dallas, Texas is looking for a Regional Consultant/Regional Market Manager. The job description asks for the following: Serve as single point of contact between Home Team and Distributor base in managing and fielding issues and concerns Determine and direct all national, … [Read more...]