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We talked in last week's blog about the challenges and successes of a female business partnership through the lens of Betsy Polk and Maggie Ellis Chotas, business partners and co-presidents of Mulberry Partners. We know the subject well from our own partnership in writing together for more than 30 years, far longer than many marriages. But we wanted to hear how other women achieved work nirvana, so here are two other teams that show how to manage the formula well. Co-Executive Directors Linda Popky and Lisa Anderson Linda Popky, a strategic marketing expert with her own business, Leverage2Market Associates, and...

Writing is a solitary profession as we well know. And when we were lucky enough to be introduced more than 30 years ago, we quickly realized that we had similar interests and goals. Both of us were driven by the simple desire to do good work fueled by ideas that we wanted to express through words. We gave our writing partnership a try. That was in 1985. After a honeymoon period when we penned a 30-page book proposal together which turned into our first book, “Corporate Bloodlines,” we knew this was a good match. We also understood that our relationship...

If you’re in the work world long enough, you most likely will experience both good and bad bosses. Most of us have witnessed all the iterations in fiction, on the screen and in the news. These days there’s buzz about Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and whether she really has been a terrible boss who berates her staff and yells too much. Furthermore, does that make her a terrible potential U.S. President? I’m not sure since I don’t know how much is true or simply hype that comes from disgruntled staff members.  However, since we’re first talking bad bosses, let’s tick...

Most of my friends, who love to travel, talk about taking trips now, while we are relatively healthy, can walk (fast), climb stairs (maybe, mountains), and breathe in thin air at high altitudes (Denver, Machu Pichu, Bhutan). It’s a notch on the bucket list, a term that’s been bandied about for years and tends to be overused. However, it expresses our wishes before the inevitable…our demise. Truth be told, we’re counting down the good years, in my case, of travel that we may have left, perhaps. It might be 10 to 15 or at best 20 years before we’re ensconced...

I’m up and at ‘em. The day starts when my sister, who has been staying with me for six days to help me clean out my condo, reminds me that I need to get going to drive her to the airport. Fact: There is an ice storm happening right outside my window. It’s a rare occurrence in St. Louis. Fact: For those who know me, I’m a terrible driver. One of the reasons I am excited to move to New York City is….I won’t have to drive. Fact: Driving on ice is not driving. It’s sledding. Fortunately, I have an...