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Motherhood is the New MBA

By Shari Storm
I'm the author of Motherhood is the New MBA: Using Your Parenting Skills to be a Better Boss (St. Martin's Press / hardcover). I've got three beautiful daughters and I work full time as the CMO of Verity Credit Union in Seattle. I also speak on management.
Telling everyone what you only need to tell one. We’ve all been there. You’ve got that employee whose isn’t doing what they are supposed to. Maybe it’s dress code. They wear things that are unprofessional or distracting. T ... Read more...
  I read with great interest, Oscar Del Ben’s post “30 Habits that Will Change Your Life”. (www.freestylemind.com) I nodded my head at eac ... Read more...
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  As the economy crunched budgets at my office last fall, our CEO encouraged the executives to take more time off to keep our vacation time from accruing.   I jumped at this idea! I started a tradition that I will maintain long after o ... Read more...
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I live in a county with exclusively mail-in voting procedures. As I prepare to cast my ballot for our next leader, I’m reminded how sad this makes me as a parent. I remember election days when I was growing up. My parents would take me and my sister to ... Read more...
I fancy myself a highly educated, hardworking, professional, executive mommy. My monthly reading list includes The Economist, Working Mother Magazine, The Puget Sound Business Journal, Fast Company and Parenting. Except when I'm at the grocery store ... Read more...
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