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Women, Invent Your Future: Attend Ruth Stergiou’s conference in Sunnyvale (CA) this week!

March 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators

Invent Your Future is the name of a Conference that Ruth Stergiou co-founded with Denise Brosseau in 2005 and of which Ruth is the CEO. The event will take place on March 22, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I like the phrase: “Invent Your Future,” as even though women have come a long way over […]

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The art of continuous self-reinvention: What started Nilofer Merchant on the entrepreneurial road

December 5th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Entrepreneurs

By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis Chatting over breakfast the other day at Il Fornaio with Nilofer Merchant, whose book The New How, Building Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy I discussed in a former post, I realized that a “new how” often starts with a “new me.” This “new me” can be triggered by unforeseen events – events […]

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No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power, by Gloria Feldt

October 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Book Review, Entrepreneurs

By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis Last Friday, Marian Scheuer Sofaer invited a few friends for a breakfast in Palo Alto, CA with Gloria Feldt, who presented her now famous book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power. A great intimate setting early in the morning that did not diminish Gloria’s energy and determination to […]

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