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How to Use Creativity to Spark High Performance

By Alexia Vernon | September 5th, 2012

What do Google, Nordstrom and Zappos have in common? Not only are each of these companies regularly on national lists for best companies to work for, but each company also provides employees with regular opportunities for creative thinking outside of their primary projects and responsibilities. Gmail, Google Earth and Google AdSense are just a few [...]

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Dear Mom and Dad, Thank You for Forcing Me to Make Recession Lemonade

By Alexia Vernon | February 12th, 2009

Dear Mom and Dad, I thought my life was over when I learned we couldn’t come up with the money for my remaining year at [Insert prestigious university]. It seemed unfathomable that both of you could lose your jobs, and as a consequence, the home I had grown up in. But surely the institution that [...]

Also posted in Career Advice, Coaching, Family, Gen-Y, Happiness, Leadership, Money, Personal Development | 6 Comments

How Do We Train Leaders for a Green Economy?

By Alexia Vernon | December 26th, 2008

As a country, we have lost 1.9 million of them in 2008. Economists and even our national oracle of optimism, President-Elect Obama, recognize that another 2-3 million jobs are likely to be lost in 2009. While those of us in the career coaching business continue to proselytize that jobs in healthcare, human services, engineering, and [...]

Also posted in Adult Learning, Career Advice, Coaching, Green Economy, Leadership, Marketing and PR, Politics | 4 Comments

How Did Obama "Barack" America?

By Alexia Vernon | November 12th, 2008

Though happiness. Strategists, pundants, politicians, and even the President-Elect himself will espouse different theories for why the United States elected Barack Obama our 44th president. Sure Obama might be dismissed simply as “the right man at the right time.” He talks about empowering the lower and middle classes, ending the war in Iraq, investing in [...]

Also posted in Activism, Gen-Y, Happiness, Personal Development, Politics | 3 Comments


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