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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

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A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

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Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

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Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

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In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

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The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

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My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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