Volume 14                                                              

5 Simple Ways to Stand Out and Get Ahead                                                                                

by Colleen Davis

Personal branding is the easiest and most effective way to stand out from the masses and move up quickly in your career. In case you don’t fully understand what your personal brand is – it is the total perceived value of YOU, relative to your competitors, as viewed by your audience. Here are five ways that you can strengthen your brand:

Top 10 Truths By Which to Live

by Dr. Lois Frankel

With this, my final post on the Thin Pink Line, I want to share with you the top ten truths I have learned through my experiences, education, and the wise women I have been fortunate to encounter along the way.  They are words I live by every day (some days harder to honor than others!) and that I believe have contributed to a blessed and rich life.  I hope you will remember them and that they in some contribute to my wish for you — a rich life in all ways.

Reader Pick!

Knowing Your Value

by Mika Brzezinski

As co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski’s on air demeanor is often described as confident, gutsy, and brutally honest. But off camera, the seemingly master communicator had trouble articulating her value to management and passed up multiple opportunities for salary increases and promotions. A powerful, inspiring, must-read for women at every career stage, KNOWING YOUR VALUE: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth.
Prompted by her own experiences, Brzezinski interviewed some of America’s most successful and influential women and men and found that she was not alone with the career and money mistakes she had made along the way. The result is a surprisingly honest and unexpectedly revealing look at gender inequality in the workplace..

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