Last week I learned a very important lesson: when someone asks you what you felt you did well, do not, under any circumstances, launch into a laundry list of self-criticism.

Lately I've been thinking that the toughest job for most leaders is maintaining your positivity and confidence in a relentless environment of uncertainty. 2008 was 4 years ago and…

Consultants around the globe have made mountains of money teaching people how to appropriately deliver negative feedback message. Ooops. I mean constructive feedback messages.

Recently, I read a leadership tip of the day that said "Leadership is about being positive at least 81% of the time." Really? That means I get a full day of being negative every…

I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about the quest many of us have to "find our passion" or the "work we love". There's a video that's been making the internet rounds…

Lately I've been thinking about confidence. It's something that I always assumed you either had, or didn't have. I'd never spent much time thinking about what I had done to build…

As a woman, I am in an extreme minority when it comes to Canadian rock band Rush's fan base. (And although I'm not as fervent a fan as my husband, yes, I have seen them in concert…

Tony Hsieh is the inspiring 30-something CEO of Zappos.com, an online retailer that was recently acquired by Amazon.com for just over 1.2 billion (yes billion) dollars