John Agno
John G. Agno is a seasoned corporate executive, entrepreneur and management consultant who today coaches senior executives and business owners to reach decision-making clarity by exploring unintended consequences of their future actions. John helps you see things you are missing, affirms whatever progress you have made, tests your perceptions and lets you know how you are doing. His developmental coaching helps you focus your natural abilities in the right direction. The coaching allows your inner-potential to erupt outward through effective leadership; to develop commitment within organizations and in a world of "free agents" and "volunteer" talent.
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Self-Understanding"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, who has started upon his quest for the source of his being." Dag Hammarskjold
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Sales by Objectives MethodologyA sales process methodology of setting goals and strategy for targeted accounts.
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Women You Should KnowPlease join Women for Economic and Leadership Development (WELD) on November 9, 2011 for the 2012 Women You Should Know Calendar Reception.
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Women LeadersIn their book "Megatrends of Women," Patricia Aburdene & John Naisbitt point out that, "The traits of the manager of the future uncannily match those of female leadership. Consultants have tried to teach male managers to relinquish the command-and-control mode. For women it was different: it just ca
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Advancement is Good for Women and Good for BusinessIn tribute to this year's recipients of The Catalyst Canada Honours-Monique F. Leroux, Chair of the Board, President and CEO, Desjardins Group; Jennifer Tory, Regional President, Greater Toronto Region, RBC; and Michael Bach, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, KPMG LLP-Catalyst Canada will
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Just Isn't EnoughJust Isn't Enough When DOING everything, just isn't enough,
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Emerging Women in Computer Science ProfessionsThe percentage of female computer science (CS) majors at Harvey Mudd College in Southern California has more than tripled to 42 percent. Nationally, women account for 14 percent of college graduates in the field, according to the Computing Research Assn.
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Career Woman in the CityThe following is taken from "I Don't Know How She Does It," a film which comes out this month. The film's trailer is wholly consistent with romantic-comedy tropes: a quick flash of a party heavy on pink decor; a shot of Sarah Jessica Parker, the film's star, in a passionate clinch. Yes, there will b
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New York Fashion Week's Affect on Career WomenAs New York Fashion Week kicks off Thursday, designers are still in recovery mode after a long period of economic uncertainty. But the mood isn't gloomy. Colors will be vibrant and saturated.
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Working Mother GuiltYou may have read the February 14 edition of The New Yorker magazine where Tina Fey wrote: "What is the rudest question you can ask a woman? How old are you? What do you weigh? No, the worst question is: How do you juggle it all? The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield. 'How
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Women Backing WomenIt is called Belizean Grove , and if you haven't heard of it, you're not alone. Founded 12 years ago, it operates mostly under the radar. The first time it received any real public attention was in 2009, when it became known that Sonia Sotomayor, now a Supreme Court justice, was among its 125 or so
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Why Do so Many Salespeople Fail?Unprepared salespeople working without a proven sales process are bound to fail.
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Expect the UnexpectedUnexpected events -- surprises, whether good or bad -- can make or break your business. Your ability to recognize and react to these events is key to both your growth and your survival.
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Turning HeadsThe top six lessons learned by employers of choice about the important '" but not always apparent '" elements of the best places to work.
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Ten Coaching Tips for Career WomenThese ten coaching tips are meant to allow a career woman's perceptions to evolve as she struggles to get everything done in her life.
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Dress to ImpressMany workplaces have unofficial uniforms -say, collared shirts and slacks for men and professional-looking sweaters and pants for women. But recently, the Swiss bank UBS has taken the corporate dress code to the next level. Echoing rules applied at Swiss boarding schools, UBS's guidelines go beyond
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Will Executive Women Marry?A sea change in relationships is taking place as everyone adjusts to the new reality of women being better educated and in some cases more preferred than men in the workforce. Especially unsettling to some men is their role as second-best earner in the family. As a recent Pew Research Center report
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Women of a Certain Age Plan Their FutureBy Guest Author Elinor Ginzler
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Networking is Marketing" Networking is very important, whether you're a CEO or an entrepreneur," Mindy Grossman, the CEO of the Home Shopping Network, said the other night, in an event hall at the Fashion Institute of Technology. "Nothing is linear anymore, ant the connections you make--you never know what is going to com
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Career Women's Leadership LabyrinthMany female executives are "getting lost in the leadership labyrinth."
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Career Women StatisticsYou could easily compile statistics to make the case that women - at least Western women - are already empowered .
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Women in the C-SuiteAs the number of women participating in the workforce grows, their potential influence on business is becoming ever more important. Seventy-two percent of respondents to a recent McKinsey survey believe there is a direct connection between a company's gender diversity and its financial success. Yet,
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Winning WomenMen vs. women: When it comes to delivering exceptional results for shareholders, guess who wins? Which companies perform better for investors--those led by women or those by men?
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Mentoring Women by Sheryl Sandberg at FacebookMARK Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg may well be Silicon Valley's oddest couple. Mr. Zuckerberg, a 26-year-old engineer and product visionary, is socially awkward and reserved. At 41, Ms. Sandberg is the opposite: polished, personable, chatty and at ease in the limelight. The differences don't end t
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Woman Leadership Persuasional PowerLeadership Persuasion Persuasion has four elements:
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Don't let starting a new job be the end of your careerBy Coach Therese Marie, www.MeetTherese.com So you landed the job! You're the new VP - of Engineering...or Finance…or HR…or Sales…or…you get the drift.
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How to find the safest banks.Stress test results for the biggest European banks were recently released, while the largest U.S. banks took their first stress tests in May 2009. But most people don't really care how much stress their banks are under; they are more worried about their own stress levels. One thing that adds to per
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Boomers are reviving that sexual spark!Contrary to popular belief, erectile-dysfunction drugs like Viagra don't fix male libido problems, either. By enhancing blood flow, ED medications may help create or maintain an erection, but they don't provide the desire for one in the first place. They don't deliver what Boston urologist Abraham M
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Opening the gate to fathers.The benefits of having a positive, involved father are well documented by decades of research.
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It's Who You Know, Stupid!There is a deeply rooted myth in American culture that shapes our behavior---a myth so strong that to question it might challenge our history.
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Woman CEO knows when to walk awayAnne Mulcahy went from being "I just want to be a CEO " to understanding that she had to be an advocate for women . She said, "There's a responsibility that comes with the position. If you don't speak about the need to focus on the progress of women , who will? Maybe we've reached a degree of parity
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Mother's Day Gift IdeaMarlene, a mother, was raising Hannah, a very strong-willed seven-year-old, and the two were having a bad day. Finally, Hannah put her hands on her hips in exasperation and said, "You know, Mom, this just isn't working out. I want a new mother."
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Why Every Women CEO Needs a CoachEvery Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is "on the stage" the majority of his or her work life but needs pre-performance quiet and confidential time to be creative, bounce their ideas off someone in a safe environment, and explore the unintended consequences of their future actions. Engaging in a person
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Marriage in AmericaBeginning this past summer, casting agents for NBC's "The Marriage Ref" scoured the countryside in search of bickering couples ("No problem is too small!") willing to submit to an arbiter advised by a panel of stars, including Alec Baldwin, who, though divorced, did play the title role in a movie ca
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Permanently Engaged BoomersThe decision not to remarry is part of the fastest-growing subset of cohabiting couples in the U.S. nowadays - those over the age of 50. The generation that most wanted marriage has become the generation that scoffs. Most of their reasons are practical - remarriage can mean, for example, adjusting
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Leader Survival in a Tough EconomyThe latest recession is particularly treacherous because it's so broad, hitting Wall Street , Detroit , the housing industry and other pillars of the economy. Among the lessons seared into the hides of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) is this one: Resist the inclination to hunker down and wait out t
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Just another F-word: Fired!When it happens and you're in your fourties or fifties, it can slam you into despair . "I thought, what do you mean you don't want me?" That is the response of a woman who was abruptly stopped in her tracks--dumped from their executive office just as her career was cresting. It wasn't fair, she sai
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The Power of Shared KnowledgeThe power of knowledge works when each person takes responsibility for what she knows, who she knows and what they know.
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America: The New Entrepreneurial NationMore Americans are working as consultants or freelancers, either having given up or been forced out of the salaried world of 9 to 5. It's a trend that began after the economic downturn of the late 1980s, when I became a management consultant like many other laid-off professionals who became consulta
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Will Women Executives Marry?A sea change in relationships is taking place as everyone adjusts to the new reality of women being better educated and in some cases more preferred than men in the workforce. Especially unsettling to some men is their role as second-best earner in the family. As a recent Pew Research Center report
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Power of Respect in LeadershipThe level of cohesion and degree of personal connection between leaders and followers can make a difference. Leaders who connect well with their followers are likely to enjoy greater success.
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Advice for Parents: Imagination isn't Silly!Jacqueline Woolley, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is studying the process of "magical thinking," or children's fantasy lives, and how kids learn to distinguish between what is real and what isn't.
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Hot Holiday Season Gift for Women ExecutivesFor gadget lovers, several factors are converging to make ereading devices alluring this holiday season. Forrester Research estimates 900,000 ereaders will sell in the U.S. in November and December. The overwhelming majority of ebook buyers today are women who read ebooks on an ordinary computer
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Erotically Uncharged WomenResearchers are wondering why so many women feel little sexual desire and what should be done for them. Hypoactive sexual desire disorder studies suggest that around 30 percent of young and middle-aged women go through extended periods of feeling dim desire or of feeling no wish for sex whatsoever.
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Your decision to be a leaderThe higher up you go in a corporation's hierarchy, the value of your technical skill declines while the value of your interpersonal skills increase. The further an executive rises, the more he or she must deal with high-caliber people who know how to get what they want, are difficult, strong-willed
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Leadership through SharingNo doubt you have heard "The Cookie Thief" poem by Valerie Cox from "A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul" Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen that goes like this: A woman was waiting at an airport one night, With several long hours before her flight. She hunted for
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Exposing the Myths of Working WomenWomen love lists of what they have to get done. There are too many things for her to do before she can relax. The more exhausted she feels , the more urgent it becomes for her to get everything done. As an executive coach of working women , I know in a woman's brain there will always more to do . I
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Women's Wages Outpace Men'sThe wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. Over the past two years, the wages of the median woman--at the statistical middle--rose 3.2% when adjusted for inflation.
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Gen Yers Need Help Finding What They Do BestThe Baby Boomer Generation, who have been helicopter parents , are now counting on a productive young workforce to help fund retirement and health care. Instead, they continue to fund their adult children who risk getting tracked into jobs that that don't pay very well, says Lisa B. Kahn of the Yale
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The Power of Unconditional LoveCommon sense is not common practice when it comes to love and life. We all have read about unconditional love and yet most of us haven't put unconditional love into practice. So Robert "Bob" Moyers decided to set aside one day a year (the last Saturday in October) to allow us all to take a test d
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Is it too late to find someone special again?The U.S. Census rep or ts there are nearly 16 million unmarried Americans age 65 and older. Add the bubble of single Baby Boomers , now 45 to 63, poised to join the seni or set -- and it's no wonder that singles age 55 and older are the fastest growing group of online daters .
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Women Tolerating Excessive WorkloadReducing anxiety during the economic recession is important for the mental and physical health of boomers. However, knowing that you get what you tolerate can be important in handling today's challenges.
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Staying Healthy & Letting Go of the Need to WinAmid ever-rising calls for more exercise in America, there isn't much guidance on cutting back. As the Baby Boomers , who fueled marathon and triathlon crazes, enter their 50s and 60s, their unquenched competitiveness can become a threat to their stiffening joints, rigid muscles, hardening arteries
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Communicating that thing called love...Why is it that so few couples seem to have found the secret to keeping love alive after the wedding?The problem is that what has been overlooked is one fundamental truth: People speak different love languages.Your emotional love language and the language of your partner may be as different as Chines
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Your success can depend on a network of mentorsRelatively savvy people who succeed at building and sustaining networks of mentors are more likely that others to:
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Bathing Suit ShoppingYou know who looks fabulous in a bathing suit?
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Good Vibrations Should Not HurtMany Baby Boomer women still believe talking about vaginal pain is taboo. A recent survey reveals that roughly half of all postmenopausal women surveyed agreed that they have learned to live with the vulvar and vaginal symptoms of menopause such as dryness as a normal part of getting older. However
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Boomer Women BuyersThe Internet is neither new nor young. The fastest growing segment of Facebook users is women over 55, according to the Tracking Facebook blog. In fact, 65% of online apparel sales go to women over age 35, according to market researcher NPD Group. Among these, the fastest growing sales are to women
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Grandmother's gift suggestion for Mother's DayDid you know that boomers represent 58% of grandparents in the U.S.?
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Where is Twitter heading?Twitter is a social networking application that enables users to post short text messages, called "tweets," of no more than 140 characters on their personal feed. These real-time diary entries can then be read by other users, called "followers," who have subscribed to that page.Under the guise of a
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Women Leadership NetworkThere is a new worldwide social network at www.WomanLeadership.com where women mentor women to help each other become more effective leaders wherever they live and in whatever they do.
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Women and Time ManagementThe more stress a woman feels, the more overwhelmed she becomes.
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The Slippery Slope of Midlife LoveOnce upon a time, a woman from a small agricultural city dreamed of finding her prince. She worked hard to identify the desirable characteristics of her future prince and even wrote them down in her diary...so she would know him when the law of attraction brought them together. This woman was a 'far
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Female Executive WardrobeFor women executives, your wardrobes speak for you.
