Women are climbing the ranks in the business world, and many of them wield a great deal of powerful. Fortune routinely puts out a list of the 50 most powerful women in business. This year, 13 of those 50 run Fortune 500 companies. That’s an increase over the two that ran Fortune when the list first premiered in 1998. Not all of the women on the list have the top spot, but all of them are high-ranking executives. (Indeed, some companies have more than one powerful woman in different executive positions.) Here are the top 20 most powerful women in …read more

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Wow, am I ever jealous of Francoise Gri.

She was named by Fortune as one of the “International 50 Most Powerful Women in Business” and has made the list for the fifth consecutive year. This is quite an honor and exhibits an obviously stellar performance and track record by Francoise.

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What words inspire and motivate you? What words catapult you into action? Continuing off of the post made this morning about comfort zones, I’m curious to know what motivates you each day and gets you going for your career and your business.
Is it money…the promises of a big fat paycheck at the end of the week?
Are you motivated by the sheer intoxication of being in power at your company?
Are you inspired by your little ones, motivated to provide the best for them?
What are YOUR motivating words?
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Don’t forget the Quickbooks give-a-way that Kristen is having. …read more

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What are you most comfortable working at? If you’re like me, you only like to do things you’re familiar with, things that “feel right” and you don’t have to expend a whole lot of energy doing. After all, doing things that way seem to make the day go by much easier, much faster and with very little effort.
Seth Godin’s blog featured an inspiring article about the effort we place into doing various things throughout our day. It got me thinking about my business and facing those things in my business that seem challenging to me. Things like writing on topics …read more

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Hope you get a giggle out of this!

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Copyright 2008 – Bridget Wright

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Are you interested in starting or growing your existing blog? Renegade University through iContact is offering classes to help you with just that.
Starting October 7th, you can begin this class on blogging that will teach you the basics on starting, managing and growing a blog successfully for your business. If you’ve ever been interested in doing this, now is the time to get started.
Best to all!

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Patti LaBelle is a phenomenal superstar and business woman in her own right. Her background spans over thirty years and she’s still going strong! Check out this live interview with her on the Today show. She has really got class and inspiration.

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The bailout is a no-go.
The outcome of the decision to bail out financial institutions was announced yesterday with a marginal vote of 228-205. With such a slim shot at the bailout being a go, Nancy Pelosi was credited with having swayed on-the-fencers in chaning their minds towards a no-go. Wow.
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In this video, Rep. Pelosi give a very frank, direct assessment of the way that the Democrats and the Republicans worked together in the spirit of bipartisanship to arrive at amenable results. Although the answer is still “no”, I would hope still that both sides …read more

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Guest Post By Lori Widmer
I had a client once who expected – no, demanded – that I be online and signed into Instant Messaging from 8 a.m. until she went home at 8 p.m. my time. If she had questions about what I’d written, she wanted me right there to answer them. My relationship with her ended about 3 seconds after that demand. She was challenging my ability to work my own hours, take my own time off, basically have a life.

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OK, so a lot of people like the McCain/Palin mix for different reasons. Many women are just politically intoxicated with the idea of (potentially) having a female in power in the White House. After all, a woman in the White House means a lot for Women’s Rights, Civil Rights and perhaps will even change or level the playing field just a bit for the females. But one thing still bothers me…