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Topic: Hillary Clinton

  
DEVELOPING   |  Comment

Are Women The World's Last Untapped Natural Resource?

In the west, we’re spoiled. Women are an integral part of society, running board rooms, Fortune 500 companies, households, raising children; often doing everything (or more) that their male counterparts do. In much of the rest of ...READ»

Annette Lode

Leadership: To Change or Not To Change?

“We change when it hurts too much not to change.” That statement is attributed to Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the author of many books on change and its effect on organizations. This sentiment certainly applied to ...READ»

Annette Lode
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The Leading Edge - Are you listening Hillary? Maybe you should be.

Observing the presidential campaigns as an expert in emotional intelligence has been highly instructional about what does and doesn't work in terms of leadership. One of the main appeals to Barack Obama is that when people ...READ»

Annette Lode

Hillary's New Video

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton (finally) announced that she was running for president. In a video posted to her website, Senator Clinton, sitting in what looked like her living room, officially entered the '08 race. I always love to ...READ»

Annette Lode

Tell Me What You <em>Really<em/> Think

Ever since I was quoted in the January 21 New York Times, I've been in conversations with several reporters and others on the topic of authenticity. In case you didn't see the article, my comments had to do with Hillary Clinton's ...READ»

Annette Lode
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The Leading Edge - Obama Clinton Texas Debate - Try This Spin

As I watched the debate between Obama and Clinton in Austin, Texas, I thought of tennis. I never progressed very far in tennis, because I never mastered the skill of hitting the ball with over spin. Try as a I might, I would ...READ»

Annette Lode
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Leadership: Hillary's Improved Speaking Voice (And So Can You!)

I always watch the presidential candidate debates, both sides, because as an expert in political communication, the press often calls on me to get my take on things. As my long-time readers already know, when it comes to presidential ...READ»

Annette Lode
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Leadership: Ambition--Vice or Virtue?

A pair of new books on Senator Hillary Clinton, as described by the Washington Post, draw a portrait of a woman who is smart, shrewd and very “methodical.” Both books, one by Carl Bernstein (Her Way) and the other by Jeff Gerth ...READ»

Annette Lode
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The Leading Edge - Hillary Clinton - A Case of "Fearful Aggression"

Hillary Clinton + Anticipatory Rejection + Fearful Aggression = Lost Presidential Bid   Anticipatory rejection is a state of mind where you believe that regardless of what you say, people will push back, ...READ»

Annette Lode
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Obama/Clinton - "It's 3 A.M. who ARE you going to call?"

Hillary Clinton has thrown out an important challenge, namely, "It's 3 AM, you have a national security crisis on your hands, who do you want answering the phone?" I am anxious about Barack Obama picking up that phone, ...READ»

Annette Lode
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Leadership: Hillary’s Laugh and Rudy’s Phone Call – The Inauthenticity Sweepstakes

What are we to make of Hillary Clinton’s recent tendency to laugh loudly and fully when being peppered with questions by the media and Rudolph Giuliani’s acceptance of a cell phone call from his wife, Judith, in the middle of an ...READ»

Annette Lode

The Leading Edge - For Crying Out Loud Hillary

She cries, she wins. What's going on? Prior to Hillary Clinton's crying episode, we knew more about her experience, than about how to experience her. When she cried and showed vulnerability, she demonstrated more accessibility ...READ»

Annette Lode

The Leading Edge - Why I switched to Hillary Clinton

I ran into Chelsea Clinton today (1/12) at the Farmer’s Market at Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. In a sweet, sincere voice she said, “I hope you’ll support my mom.” I had been undecided between her mom, Barack ...READ»

MARKETING   |  Comment

Tony Soprano for President?

As FC's Danielle Sacks explored in this month's Fast Talk, much of the 2008 presidential campaign is being fought on the Web with the growth of online fund-raising, grassroots organizing, and viral video. This week's must-see clip ...READ»

Annette Lode
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The Leading Edge - Presidential Candidates Leave Your Dissonance at the Door

After rereading my previous blog, Obama, Clinton '08, I realized that what I was responding to in my switch to Obama in the number one position and Clinton in the number two position was the dissonance I was experiencing with regard ...READ»

Annette Lode

Smart Power Is Real Power

This week Hillary Clinton shared her vision for her role as Secretary of State. For the first time in a long time, I think we are hearing the sounds of an informed approach to conflict. Hillary said, “I believe that American ...READ»

Annette Lode

The Leading Edge - Real Men Don't Eat Quiche or Like Hillary

What is Hillary's Man Problem? There is a lot written about her not being tough enough for men plus a variety of other reasons. I think there is something else possibly going on. Men -- and there are lots of them -- whose swagger ...READ»

WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

Work/Life: How Many Grams of Fat Are In That Attitude?

Here’s one that slipped under the radar while the Republicans were bashing Hillary and Hillary was bashing Obama and Obama was bashing Hillary and Amy Winehouse was bashing herself. Starting March 31, New York City fast-food ...READ»

Annette Lode
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Personal Branding and the Candidates

As a self-professed political junkie, this campaign season has been a bountiful cornucopia of riches not to mention a national stage for personal branding. Spending gobs of money on advertising and image building, the presidential ...READ»

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The Clinton Campaign: Tomorrow Never Dies

In an e-mail today addressed to her supporters, Hillary Clinton offered her thanks and expressed a willingness to help the Democratic party unite behind Senator Obama. On Saturday, she plans to hold an event in Washington that will ...READ»

Be Gracious -- Whether You Win or Lose

Being gracious in victory and defeat is a key to building strong relationships.  Strong relationships with the important people in your life are a key to interpersonal competence.   Tuesday evening, we all go to see an example of ...READ»

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Work/Life: Hillary and Steroids

  Okay, I admit the headline on today’s entry could fall under the category of “bait and switch.”  See, I don’t really want to write about Hillary Clinton’s recent defeat at the polls, but there’s so much news about it ...READ»

Annette Lode
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The Leading Edge - Hillary, It's Time to BATNA Down the Hatches*

Show me someone who hasn't thought through a BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) and I'll show you Hillary Clinton. BATNA is a term first developed by negotiation researchers Roger Fisher and Bill Ury of the ...READ»

Annette Lode

Leadership: Does Hillary Play Like A Girl?

Since the Democratic debate on October 30, there has been a veritable media hissy-fit over Hillary Clinton’s purported stumbles as well as her resorting to the gender card when her campaign labeled the attacks by her competitors ...READ»

Who's Winning the Race--OnLine?

As an online publisher, I regularly contact authors I feel the public may want to hear from.  Recently, my office emailed individual invitations to Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, and Senator John McCain, ...READ»