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Business Killers: 8 Lame Mistakes of Small-Business Owners

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ November 20, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

Our guest contributor, Paul Herman, offers a summary of unintended mistakes for small-business owners to avoid. Enough already with talk of our country’s fiscal cliff. How about the fiscal cliff […]

Get Paid Faster: 3 Tools So You Stop Giving It Away

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ July 7, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

Do you do a million tasks for free, and then wonder why you are not seeing the dollars? Fret no more; I’m gonna help you get paid, and get paid […]

How To Be A Bulldog In A Male-Dominated Industry

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ May 14, 2012 ⋅ 6 comments

When I refer to someone as “Potentate of the Board Room,” do you think of a woman? I would guess not. Because we all know, comparatively speaking, there are really […]

The Best Of 20 Crowdsourced Solutions To Save Your Dysfunctional Organization

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ March 3, 2012 ⋅ 5 comments

A reader hit the ‘Contact Us’ button and asked a question about change management and organizational behavior. What Suzanne Whang asked was: The problem I see with us “over-40-ers” is […]

Believing In Yourself: How a 70-Year-Old Woman Came to Conquer The Retail World

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ January 5, 2012 ⋅ 23 comments

I draw huge inspiration from Jennifer Hudson’s weight loss. But my guy friend didn’t recognize her story. Instead, he said Charles Barkley was an inspiration for losing weight. So I […]

How to Radically Reinvent Yourself

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ January 4, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

Three years ago, David Lerner, who owned a business focusing on corporate travel, couldn’t sell plane tickets to his best friend. When his friend said, “It was the middle of […]