by Janet Ioli | Feb 28, 2016 | Inspiration Point, Uncategorized
I recently engaged in an intriguing dinner conversation with one of our new neighbors, discussing his career as a successful serial entrepreneur and marketing professor at the business school of a local university. As he described one of his business start-ups,...
by Janet Ioli | Feb 20, 2016 | Inspiration Point, Uncategorized
Time-management is a challenge for many of us. Day after day I hear the lament from clients, colleagues, family, and friends about the struggle to fit in all the things they are committed to, want to, or more often than not, feel obliged to do. As much as we try to...
by Janet Ioli | Feb 1, 2016 | Inspiration Point, Uncategorized
At the beginning of a 2-day Networking class I teach at American University’s Key Executive Leadership Program for government executives, I ask the participants in the session to tell me what they think of when they think of “networking”. Without fail, most of the...
by Janet Ioli | Jan 10, 2016 | Inspiration Point, Uncategorized
I was talking to a woman recently who had lost her executive job in a major layoff about a year and a half ago. She had held an executive role for over 10 years and worked for the same company for over 25 years. Now, at the age of 48, Mary (not her real name) was...
by Janet Ioli | Jan 4, 2016 | Inspiration Point, Uncategorized
In ancient Rome, Janus was the god of beginnings and transitions, and also of gates, doorways, passages, endings, and time. The Romans named the month of January (Ianuarius) in his honor. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looked both to the future...
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