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On September 2, 2013, at the age of sixty-four, Diana Nyad emerged onto the sands of Key West after swimming 111 miles, nation to nation, Cuba to Florida, in an epic feat of both endurance and human will, in fifty-three...

In her inspiring, deeply intelligent and intensely practical Our Turn, Kirstine Stewart draws on her own extensive leadership experience to take the conversation about women and work to a whole new level. Simply put:...

Have you ever had the feeling that you���re just not getting through to the person you���re talking with, or coming across the way you intend to? You���re not alone. Our usual approach is to just talk louder, to try harder to...

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Do you play to win? Or do you play not to lose? As Tory Higgins and Heidi Grant Halvorson have discovered in their work at Columbia University���s Motivation Science Center, everything we do is motivated either by a...

Mackenzie Allen, the 45-year-old Independent Vice President of the United States, is about to venture into territory no woman has entered before. While at an official ceremony with husband and Chief of Staff, Rod...

Louise is working in a diner as a waitress and has some problems with her boyfriend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that...

In a small town in Oregon, farm girls Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) are sisters who compete with each other, even over the little things. Older, prettier, more settled and married Dottie is the...

Are you at the top of your game���or still trying to get there? Take your cues from��the short, powerful��9 Things Successful People Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world���s most successful people...

Your bucket list. Quarterly objectives. Strategic plans. Big dreams. Goals. Lots of goals and plans to achieve those goals-no matter what. Except. You're not chasing the goal itself, you're actually chasing the...

We can talk about strategies like great employment brand and bias free recruiting and having strong retention policies, but for me, the biggest impact that organizations can make in attracting and retaining strong...

Described as ���an innovative and prolific scholar��� by Foreign Policy and named one of the magazine���s Top 100 Global Thinkers four years in a row, Anne-Marie Slaughter turns big ideas and deep analysis into realistic...

Jessica Herrin, CEO and Founder of Stella & Dot, is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded WeddingChannel.com, the world���s leading wedding site. With a vision to create a new kind of company that would offer...

When I had the opportunity to visit Google���s headquarters to give a talk last summer, I found out first hand that the rumors are true: there���s a lot of food and it is delicious. From gourmet snacks to expertly prepared...

What if you could, with a little effort, live an extraordinary life? A life in which you felt deep passion for everything you did, and always had time for what matters most? A life in which you had the power, the...

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY��THE WASHINGTON POST��AND NPR ��� ���An eye-opening call to action from someone who rethought the whole notion of ���having it all,���Unfinished Business��could change how many of us...

What values does America truly stand for? In��The Idea That Is America, a preeminent foreign policy scholar elegantly reminds us of the essential principles on which our nation was established: liberty, democracy,...

Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely...

Expertise. Experience. Energy. Enthusiasm. Bill Williams embodies these attributes, bringing each element to the sessions he leads. Every time. For over 20 years, Bill has been inspiring a variety of industries and...