“Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.” This 1995 Steve Jobs interview...
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Leda Karabela
A seasoned international communication and marketing expert, Leda Karabela (twitter: @ledaka) is bringing her executive experience into the field of leadership coaching, helping executives with performance maximization. Having worked with multinational firms such as BP and Microsoft, she also led the corporate relations program at the Stanford University Business School and has lived in Boston, San Francisco, London, Athens and Dubai. She holds an L.LB from Aristotelian University Law School, M.S. in Corporate Communication from Boston University and a Graduate Executive and Leadership Coaching Certification from the University of Texas (Dallas) School of Management. Her transcontinental commute between San Francisco and Athens – while challenging – makes for an interesting expatriate experience and third-culture viewpoint. Her personal blog is www.yhesitate.com.
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It’s All About Value, Stupid!
It’s the “Unbearable Lightness of Being” all over again. Having read a semi-sarcastic and justifiably fair assessment of the state of “professionalism” in the service industry and specifically the field of coaching, I thought back a few decades where a similar debate was going on. Several years later, and the issue of regulation in...
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Important But Not Urgent
After a couple of years worth of work as a solitary and lone soldier, following more than a couple of decades of more traditional executive life, yesterday was the one of these extremely rare days I stayed away from my daily world of emails, tweets, blogs and e-news. To a regular, non-wired person the...
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The Gender Game
I caught myself playing the quota games last evening. “You need a woman in this venture…” I told a guy acquaintance as we were discussing the objectives of a particular enterprise. Of course it had to do with business and high tech as well – but thinking back I am annoyed at myself for...
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