by Martha Gelnaw | Mar 26, 2025
Our leadership evolves. Let’s know that there is a process. In the early 90’s I took my grandmother into Manhattan for an afternoon of high tea and a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She’d been born and bred in New York City and yet,...
by Martha Gelnaw | Mar 7, 2025
Today in our business what are the Basic Skills that need repetition and reinforcement? What can we put into practice to ensure success? This is the path to mastery and excellence. When I took over a girl’s youth soccer team as its coach mid-season because their...
by Martha Gelnaw | Mar 4, 2025
Sir Michael Caine’s memoir, “Blowing the Bloody Doors Off” might seem like an unlikely source of inspiring wisdom, but it contains some great advice. “You are always auditioning”, he says. ‘If you only think you’re auditioning when you’re in the room with the casting...
by Martha Gelnaw | Feb 15, 2025
Why bother to build rapport? At her husband’s holiday party, a friend of mine met her husband’s colleague who originally came from China. This colleague shared the story about his brother who’d been climbing the corporate ladder in his homeland, and he...
by Martha Gelnaw | Feb 7, 2025
I considered myself very fortunate to grow up in a town that had a roller rink, a bowling alley, and a lake that freezes over in the winter for ice skating. My hometown in northern New Jersey, formerly a farming town, was now part of the growing suburbs outside of New...
