Author Archives: Marta Steele
6 Must-Haves for Writing a Compelling, Professional Bio
If you don’t have a professional bio, or if it’s been acquiring electronic dust in a long lost folder, it’s probably time you created or …
5 Ways to Grow Fleeting Contacts into Lasting Relationships
Contact: an acquaintance, colleague, or relative through whom a person can gain access to information, favors, influential people and the like. Relationship: the way in …
$@#* Happens: Workplace Lessons from the Carnival Cruise Ship
I don’t do boats. Even looking at them makes me woozy. My motion-sickness heart went out to the travelers on last week’s Carnival cruise ship voyage …
Why Simple Is Better
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius “Everything should be made as …
4 Leadership Lessons From Apple’s MapGate
I miss Google maps on my iphone. It was taken away without my consent and I want it back. If you have an iphone, you know what …
Hurricane Sandy: No Power But We Are Fine
It seemed unnatural for me to write about the presidential campaign, organizational learning or social media when the after effects of Hurricane Sandy are impacting …
Successful People Versus Unsuccessful People
I stumbled upon this list a few weeks ago in my Facebook newsfeed (thanks Lisa Franklin Hessel!). I’m not sure of the original author but …