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Cash And Control: An Expensive Business Lesson
Cash And Control: An Expensive Business Lesson The lessons I learned from my first startup company are ones I never forgot. The first two years of my first business, developing, producing and selling sportswear clothing, was challenging and exhilarating. The business grew quickly because I apparently designed a product that appealed to a wide range of female tennis players. In ... Read more »
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Is it Time to ask the 1 Billion Dollar Question?
• Once the Union decertified the Owners had no choice but to call for a Lockout • NFLPA asks for 10 years of audited financials when the IRS only asks for 3 years • An NFL team’s product today( which owners need to cover) is part of their expenses . Look at a team’s web site and count the number of non-player employees and you will know why team expenses to support ... Read more »
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Susan Tose Spencer: DeMaurice Smith Should Be Fired
In an interview with Loriann Larocca, Susan T Spencer, the Eagles lawyer during the NFL 1982 lockout, gives her take on the current status of the NFL lockout. Read the article » Read more »
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Are Women Worth Less?
For more than half a century women have taken a back seat to men in salaries and other compensation. The March 2011 Women in America report prepared for the White House Council on Women and Girls describes the current scorecard this way; “At all levels of education, women earned about 75 percent as much as their male counterparts in 2009.”(Women In America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being, page 32). Historically, ... Read more »
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The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers
Lawyers are NOT business men and women. . . they only shake up the process “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” (- William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2, circa 1590) If the player reps and designated owners sat down in small groups to talk about the issues without lawyers... without cameras…. and without any preconditions, a deal could be worked out. Once lawyers get involved ... Read more »
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Ann Liguori and Susan T Spencer talk women in Sports and How Gender Works Both ways
Using Briefcase Essentials 12 Natural Talents Gets You Where You Need to Go! Listen to the interview » Read more »
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HR PROFESSIONALS — YOUR INFLUENCE HAS FINALLY ARRIVED
As an entrepreneur who owned and operated four companies with several hundred ... Read more »
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WOMEN YOU’RE UNIQUE. YOU LEAD DIFFERENTLY FROM MEN, AND THAT’S A GOOD THING, ESPECIALLY IN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS!
In the category of unique, here are 5 of the 12 skills that women in business own which helps them lead and succeed – skills that men covet. Perceptive Communication Women are natural communicators. Men listen, and women talk . . . to everyone. Women’s ability to communicate is not just their ability to talk; they are also aware of what others are thinking. All of women’s senses contribute to ... Read more »
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Women and Leadership – A Look From Inside The Boardroom
Perhaps no issue has been stirring as much discussion in the leadership field as the continual lack of balanced representation of women in senior management. Faced with the discouraging reality that only 3% of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women, despite their growing numbers in the lower management positions, it’s not surprising why this topic is getting a lot attention, if not concern given the growing rate at which women ... Read more »
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For Crying Out Loud – Strength or Weakness Depends on the Crier
I had the opportunity to observe and gain some invaluable insight from the greatest crier I have ever known when I was legal counsel, V.P. and acting GM of the Philadelphia Eagles—none other than the head coach of the team—Dick Vermeil. Dick makes John Boehner look like a bench warmer. Dick undoubtedly holds the record for the most consistent public display of crying, when dealing with certain football related ... Read more »
