by Beckie Manley | Jan 18, 2016 | Fierce Strategy + Creative, From the CEO, People + things that inspire us
*Image from Pintrest Today I took some time to listen to the TED talk by Robert Waldinger on what makes a good life. He pulls his three main lessons from one of the longest running studies on happiness that was started back at Harvard over 75 years ago. The Harvard...
by Beckie Manley | Jan 4, 2016 | Fierce Excerpts, Fierce Strategy + Creative, From the CEO
*Image and graph below from HBR. Now Reading | Only 8% of Leaders are Good at Both Strategy and Execution. (HBR) According to HBR, a 2013 survey of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries asked respondents to rate the effectiveness of the top leaders of...
by Beckie Manley | Jan 2, 2016 | Fierce Excerpts, Fierce Strategy + Creative, From the CEO
Now Listening | Just a Little Nicer, the TED Radio Hour. Whenever I travel, I try to catch up on podcasts from NPR’s This American Life or Planet Money or from my new favorite series, the TED Radio Hour. The latest episode I listened to was all about compassion...
by Beckie Manley | Dec 4, 2015 | Fierce Strategy + Creative, From the CEO
I have worked with business partners in the past who started each conversation reciting all the meetings they had endured so far that day and all the meetings they still had to fit in before claiming a modest 4 hours of sleep and starting the self-imposed madness all...
by Beckie Manley | Dec 4, 2015 | From the CEO
I always struggle when people ask me what my hobbies are. As a mother, an entrepreneur, and a business owner for the past 15 years, I haven’t had time to develop hobbies outside of growing the company. But I just read an article from HBR that allows you to take...
by Beckie Manley | Nov 24, 2015 | Fierce Strategy + Creative, From the CEO
I find myself feeling overwhelmingly grateful often these days. I lose count how many times a day I say a little prayer of thanks for the bounty I am surrounded with and for the ability to be running Fierce. As I have studied gratefulness, I have learned that evidence...