I decided to do a series on this year’s commencement speeches, highlighting the key pieces of 40:20 Vision they often impart. Today’s speech is from Reid Hoffman, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn, and partner at Greylock Partners. He also recently published the book, The Start-up of You. The speech was given to the graduating class of Babson College, an […] Read more…
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Some 40:20 Vision from Sheryl Sandberg’s Speech at HBS
One thing I love about this time of year is the commencement speeches…always full of 40:20 Vision and I’m a sucker for them! Today I’m sharing a speech that Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, gave to the Harvard Business School 2012 Graduating Class. Read here for the full speech. Read on for the highlights: Mark Zuckerberg, […] Read more…
7 Rules of Thumb from 7 Entrepreneurs
In addition to writing and interviewing women for their 40:20 Vision…I run the 7×7 Mentoring Salons — these are “knowledge exchanges” between more established professionals and those just starting out or starting over. The idea is that every woman deserves their own advisory panel. So I give women a chance to have that for at […] Read more…
A Career Is A Relationship – 4 Steps to Getting To “I Do”
Four women look back on what they have learned about finding their way to career happiness: At first, explore with purpose… “Get as much experience doing different kinds of jobs until you find that thing that you think you can get passionate about doing and then pursue that. Don’t stay stuck. Just abut try not to […] Read more…
Dare Dream Do. The 40:20 Vision of Whitney Johnson
Whitney Johnson, is the author of Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When you Dare to Dream. Her belief is that we can each achieve greater happiness when focusing both on our dreams and on other people in our lives. In her twenties, while in the process of helping her husband achieve his dream (getting […] Read more…
Finding A Way To Do Something Inspired and Genuine
Earlier this spring I interviewed Amanda Hesser of Food52 for my “Finding Your Path” series on The Daily Muse. It was a true pleasure hearing her story of finding a way to do something in life “that was more genuine and inspired”. Bored with her economics and finance studies in college, and seeing a […] Read more…
What I Know Now: Taking a Leap and Pushing the Re-set Button
Three bits of wisdom from two entrepreneurs who started in their late 30s / early 40s after leaving high powered jobs. Today I’m sharing their thoughts on “changing” paths, taking a “risk” and finding conviction. They believe you can push the reset button and that there is benefit to earning perspective from your previous jobs […] Read more…
What I Know Now: Interview with Designer and Entrepreneur Joy Newton
Earlier this spring I had the pleasure of interviewing Joy Newton for The Daily Muse as part of my Finding Your Path series. “We spend the first 20 years of our lives being asked what we want to be when we grow up. Then we spend the next 20 finding out for ourselves.” – Christina […] Read more…