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Ethics Decisions

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:31:52 -0600

For over 20 years, Susan K. Bishop has specialized in the entertainment, media and communications search business, recruiting hundreds of senior level executives for key positions with top companies in the fields of cable/broadband, broadcasting, publishing, digital/internet and telecommunications, in every functional area including CEOs, COOs and CFOs.

Prior to starting her own firm, Ms. Bishop was a Partner for six years with Johnson, Smith & Knisely, a prominent generalist search firm based in New York City.

Before entering the executive search business, Ms. Bishop spent ten years in the broadcast and cable television industry, where she held a variety of positions including general management, production, programming and marketing, as well as having managed the start-up of a successful pay-television company.

Ms. Bishop earned her Bachelor of Arts at Briarcliff College, her Master's in Business Administration at Fordham University, and has completed Harvard Business School's Owner/President Program (OPM). She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership. Nationally recognized for her outstanding contributions to the cable television industry, Ms. Bishop is a member of Women in Cable & Telecommunications WICT), and the Cable Television Human Resource Association (CTHRA). Additionally, she has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), The New York Women's Agenda, and Future Leader's Institute ( a K-8 Charter School in Harlem).

Karlin_Sloan

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:32:08 -0500

Karlin Sloan believes that business leaders have a responsibility not just to make their organizations better, but to contribute to the world in a positive way. She is a popular keynote speaker, author, and thought leader.

As the founder and CEO of Karlin Sloan & Company, Ms. Sloan provides organization development consulting, training and executive coaching to clients the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. She has helped organizations to develop clearer, more effective communication, enhanced teamwork and powerful leadership in times of growth, challenge, and change.

Karlin Sloan is a featured speaker for Wharton’s Executive Education program at the University of Pennsylvania, specifically on leading resilient organizations, executive coaching, and the strengths revolution in leadership. Ms. Sloan is a 2007 US delegate to the Cambridge University Prince of Wales Business and the Environment Programme. She holds a BA from Mills College, an MA in clinical psychology from the Professional School of Psychology in San Francisco, and executive coach certification through the William James Institute Center for Executive Coaching.

Ms. Sloan is the author of Smarter, Faster, Better; Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2006) and Unfear (January 2011). To visit her author page please go to Filedby.com.

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:57:41 -0500

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Your iPhone or your life? Really, what's the difference?

Greg Schwem — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:01:06 -0500

     I recently returned from New York City with my 12-year-old daughter. The highlight of the trip, for her anyway, was a visit to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue.
      Actually, calling it a “store” is like calling Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner a “bank teller.” Visitors to this store walk through a massive glass cube bearing the ubiquitous Apple logo and descend an escalator into a single room containing iPhones, iPods, iTouches and thousands of iGeeks. The store is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That’s correct, it’s even open Christmas Eve and Christmas morning just in case Santa’s elves miscounted and their boss is one MacBook short.
      After spending two hours in the store touching every iButton on every iShelf, my daughter has already added an iTouch and a Macbook to her Christmas list, even though it is October as I write this. While those may wind up under the tree, I am forbidding her to get an iPhone. Why? Because my daughter has already lost her phone. Losing an iPhone today is worse than losing the keys to your rich and newly deceased Aunt Gladys’ safety deposit box, after years of listening to her at holiday meals tell the entire family that, when she expired, “there’d be a little something for everybody.” But more about that later.
      Saying that my daughter lost her phone doesn’t do the story justice. Nine months after receiving a Sprint Rant for Christmas, and using it daily to send approximately 1.3 billion text messages and 400,000 self portraits of her teeth and nostrils to her friends, (thankfully her plan includes unlimited text, otherwise her parents would be living in a cardboard box under a viaduct) the phone failed to appear one morning as she was getting ready for school. This in itself was no cause for alarm as the Schwem household begins each morning with a frantic search for shoes, backpacks, hairbrushes or homework. The phantom item is always located approximately three seconds after the bus pulls away.
       The phone, however, had never obtained “milk carton status” until now.
Sue and I began our detective work by asking the question burned into every parent’s vernacular: “Where was the last place you left it?”
      The answer was just as common: “I dunno.”
      Every time I hear that response, I wonder, “What’s the fuss over waterboarding?”
      Eventually we gleaned a little more information from her. She couldn’t remember bringing it in last night. No wait, she remembered having it when she got out of the car. Okay, it’s getting clearer. She remembered putting it down while she retrieved her backup from our SUV’s hatch.
      And here’s where she had a “CSI moment;” the case suddenly becoming crystal clear. She remembered placing it on the bumper of the SUV while she retrieved her backpack.
      This would have been perfectly okay if the car had remained in the garage between 4 p.m. and 7 the next morning. But our family car is never idle for that long unless the battery is dead. No, our car had made at least three trips since 4 p.m., meaning the purple Sprint Rant had made at least one of them, without a seat belt if you catch my drift.
      Natalie ran to the bus, minus her phone. Sue and I began walking the streets; searching for the phone the same way a heartbroken boy searches for a lost dog. It had all the makings of a scene from Marley and Me except we weren’t combing the neighborhood calling, “Here Rant. Come home Rant!”
      Two days later, Sue found the phone. Check that, she found pieces of the phone along West 123rd Street. There were just enough parts and accompanying tire tracks to ensure the phone wouldn’t be covered under the “drop” section of the warranty.
      Natalie took the news hard, knowing that a new phone would come from her bank account. But, as she began to save, she began looking at newer phones and cooler phones. Cell phone manufacturers have a season for introducing cooler phones; it begins mere seconds after a 12 year old has purchased a phone.
     Truth be known, Natalie always wanted an iPhone. But the price tag stymied her. Besides Sprint, her parent’s provider, was not compatible with iPhone. Since her phone was being added to our plan, she opted for the Rant.
      The iPhone wouldn’t be so cool if its owners used it as simply a phone. My Blackberry contains my address book, calendar and that’s about it. Oh sure, I occasionally use the camera to snap grainy photos of objects that I will delete within 24 hours and yes, occasionally I find myself playing Brickbreaker while waiting for planes. Otherwise, I use it as a phone, meaning I talk on it.
      I rarely see iPhone users speaking into their phones. That’s because they are too busy diddling with iPhone applications. At last count the number of “apps” was approaching 100,000, including several that seem to do nothing more than make – ahem – gaseous noises on the iPhone. The user pays for that, by the way.
      If I lose my Blackberry, I know that everything is backed up on my PC. Somehow I doubt that the fart app, or any other cool iPhone app, exists anywhere except within the iPhone. So let’s see what would happen when one gets lost.
     I’ll take a blank iPhone and download ten random applications from the Apple Store. (Hint: It’s much easier to search the iPhone app store if you actually OWN an iPhone. I don’t so I have to resort to more primitive methods, such as Google searches and recommendations from the online Apple staff or “Genuises,” as they prefer to be called).
     I’ll start with iOwn, a $4.99 app that allows the inventorying of everything one has acquired over the years. Think one of those metal self storage sheds on your phone.
      Okay, now that I have EVERYTHING I OWN on my iPhone, there is still room for nine more apps. So I’ll add Pennies, a finance app that lets me keep track of my expenses; Grocery iQ for control of my shopping list, and Barista, so I can make my favorite espresso beverages with the skill of a tenured Starbucks employee.
      I may be tempted to sweeten that frothy drink so my iPhone better contain BloodSugar, an app that allows me to test my sugar intake. I’ll add FlightTrack to get real time flight updates and Gas Cubby to record my gas mileage in the event that I miss my flight altogether. RedLaser lets me scan UPC codes while DIRECTV allows me to program my DVR from faraway places.
      Finally, I’ll add Things which, according to the Apple website, allows one to “manage tasks and get things done.” I assume nobody in Congress has ever downloaded it.
      Now I will drive around the neighborhood with my newly loaded iPhone on my car bumper until it falls off and becomes a pothole filler. In one instant, I have suffered amnesia of every sort. I no longer have any idea what to buy at the grocery store and without a UPC scanner, wouldn’t know how to buy it anyway. Of course, lacking Pennies, I’m not sure I can afford groceries. Or gas for that matter.
      Since purchasing coffee from a store is out of the question, I’ll just go home and make some. Wait, no I won’t because I lost all the recipes. And I probably couldn’t find the coffee maker anyway since I downloaded its location on iOwn. My next flight came and went (I think) and my DVR is suddenly useless. So I will sit in my house, unsure what to do since Things is not around to guide me.
      Wait, I’m feeling light-headed! Could my blood sugar be plunging? How should I know? Quick, dial 911!
     Damn, I can’t do that either. Cause of death? Missing iPhone. Bag him and tag him.
      Now you see why my daughter will never get an iPhone. There is, however, a nice rotary model on Craigslist.

About Greg Schwem

Greg Schwem is a nationally known corporate stand-up comedian and business speaker. Please visit his website by clicking here. View his full corporate demo by clicking here

Fashion Shopper

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:35:57 -0500

I live in in the Lower East Side of NYC and I work on the Upper East Side, so I’m surrounded by beautiful people, hipsters, models, socialites, and fashion that covers the spectrum from haute couture to the latest street looks. I’m over…a certain age.....and want to look good, hip, and age-appropriate. In any given season, I figure out how to choose the very best items to look modern, without breaking the bank. I'm not the mother in stiletto Manolo's, but I'm also not the mother in Crocs! Since my friends often ask me for fashion advice, I figured other women would want to know, so I thought I’d share my fashion tips here.

Simon Sinek

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:03:28 -0500

Simon Sinek teaches leaders and companies how to inspire people.

Sinek is leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them. He writes, consults and speaks all over the world about the power of Why - the purpose, cause or belief that drives every one of us. If everyone knew why they do what they do, and if everyone only did the things that inspired them, Sinek believes that this world would be an amazing place.

A trained ethnographer, Sinek has held a life-long curiosity for why people and organizations do the things they do. Studying the leaders and companies that make the greatest impact in the world and achieve a more lasting success than others, he discovered the formula that explains how they do it. Sinek’s amazingly simple idea, ‘The Golden Circle’, is grounded in the biology of human decision-making and is changing how leaders and companies think and act.

Sinek’s unconventional and innovative views on business and leadership have attracted international attention and have earned him invitations to meet with an array of leaders and organizations, including: Microsoft, GE Silicones, AOL, New York City Ballet, Members of the United States Congress, the Director of HIV/AIDS Policy for the US Department of Health and Human Services and 1-800-GOT-JUNK? (one of America’s fastest growing franchises). Sinek has also had the honor of presenting his philosophy to the Ambassadors of Bahrain and Iraq, and to the senior leadership of the United States Air Force.

Sinek shares his optimism with all who will listen, speaking at conventions and corporate gatherings around the globe. Additionally, he has written and commented for local and national press, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, Houston Chronicle, FastCompany, CMO Mag azine, NPR and BusinessWeek. Sinek is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, BrandWeek, IncBizNet and makes regular guest appearances on MSNBC’s Your Business, among others.   

Sinek serves on the board of advisors for First 30 Days and sweetriot. Active in the not-for-profit world, Simon works with the EFE Foundation and Count Me In. He lives in New York, where he teaches graduate level strategic communications at Columbia University.

Interested in discovering your Why? Sign up for the online Why Discovery Course

Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action is Simon's first book. For more from Simon, please visit his blog.

April Benson

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:44:54 -0500

April Lane Benson, PhD., is a nationally known psychologist who specializes in the treatment of compulsive buying disorder. She has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years.Dr. Benson is the founder of Stopping Overshopping, LLC, and creator of Stopping Overshopping, a comprehensive program to help eliminate compulsive buying.

She works with individuals and groups, both by telephone, for people outside of the New York metropolitan area, and in person in her Manhattan office. She also sends out a quarterly newsletter, filled with informative tips for overshoppers, book suggestions and proven strategies for stopping overshopping.

To sign up for the quarterly newsletter and be informed about major media and other events, click here.

For a free video that reveals how three everyday women got out of debt, click here.

She is the editor of I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self. Her newest book is To Buy Or Not To Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop. The book can be ordered with two companion Shopping Journals, for doing the written exercises of the program outlined in the book.

Stopping Overshopping, LLC maintains an informative website at stoppingovershopping.com.

Direct Path to Success

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:33:46 -0600

Sharon Melnick Speeches and Trainings

Video on How to Succeed at Time Management

Sharon Melnick, Ph.D. is an executive coach and trainer who works with high potential and senior executives to rapidly remove any blocks to their leadership effectiveness. She combines ‘best practices’ executive coaching approaches with behavior change methods she developed over 10 years as a psychologist at Harvard Medical School.

In every organization she has been brought into, Sharon has become the 'go to' trusted coach for HR colleagues, establishing a consistently strong track record of completed coaching objectives even with clients who are considered "difficult to work with".

She gives clients a laser-like understanding of the drivers behind their behaviors, and then provides tools to raise the bar on their communication, interpersonal, and management styles. Clients achieve the trust and respect of others and broad-based impact. They master the ability to handle the stresses of the current economic climate.

Creating We

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:32:29 -0600

Judith E. Glaser is one of the most innovative and pioneering change agents in the consulting industry. She is the world’s leading authority on WE-centric Leadership. Through her dynamic, interactive and provocative keynotes and leadership summits, she has introduced her powerful transformative technologies to CEO’s and their teams at major Fortune 500 companies. Benchmark works at the intersection of leadership, brand and culture.

Judith E. Glaser is the author of two best selling business books: Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking & Build a Healthy Thriving Organization - winner of the Bronze Award in the Leadership Category of the 2008 Axiom Business Book Awards, and The DNA of Leadership; and the DVD and Workshop titled The Leadership Secret of Gregory Goose. Judith also edited and contributed to 42 Rule for Creating WE, a newly published Amazon bestseller. She is a co-founder of the We Are Family Foundation, Executive Women’s Business Forum, and the Creating WE Institute.