First of all, happy New Year and welcome to 2009! I hope it will become your most fulfilling, lucrative, successful and joyful year yet!

I am really not sure what happened to 2008 or my resolution to consistently post interesting, entertaining and insightful posts to this blog. I believe this is proof, once again, that resolutions don’t work for most human beings with 1) a life 2) a million other important priorities 3) way more interests - and good intentions -…

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Need a little validation today? Don’t we all! This video from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao is one of those cute, goofy and exceptionally heart-warming films you’ll be glad you spent 13 minutes watching!

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Just found out that I was quoted in the Smart CEO Magazine the best way possible - through the kindest, most gracious appreciation email from our charity NFTE, the focus of the interview. It’s wonderful to know that business publications are interested in corporate philanthropy and was thrilled to be included in the article!

In case you’re interested in my ponderings on corporate giving, here the interview:

give a little bit: BEING SELFISH BY GIVING BACK
BY JEANINE GAJEWSKI

In tough economic times, corporate giving…

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I had completely forgotten that I was asked long ago to contribute a motivational quote to a calendar for female entrepreneurs. How interesting that today, the historic election day ‘08, is when my quote appears on the calendar and their website www.womenentrepreneur.com. “To stay motivated, make a list of your “have dones” at the end of each day. “ I have no doubt it will be remembered among the likes of “I have a dream” or at least “Here’s looking at…

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I really enjoyed this article in the Wall Street Journal about eliminating those awful annual performance appraisals.  Brought back all kinds of not-so pleasant memories along with validation for why we do what we do at Incite!

I remember, back in the corporate world, how anxious my colleagues and I felt whenever our annual reviews came up. It was quite demoralizing completing all those self assessment forms, enumerating our accomplishments and fearing that our own perceptions would not at all match the…

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