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Maria’s weekly expert insight on empathy-led business, culture and brands
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An Open Letter to Certain Male Leaders and Influencers
On behalf of boy moms everywhere, please for the love of God…stop. Your bad behavior, tantrums, greed for money and fame, arrogance, and explicit and implicit disrespect for women is making our jobs as moms harder. We recognize you may have had negative role models of your own. Perhaps you were damaged by trauma. Or…
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Starbucks. I Owe You an Update
When I’m off the mark, I own it. A few months ago, I called out Starbucks, among other companies, in a Forbes piece for faking empathy. And when they started announcing changes like mandating the Sharpie-on-cup policy (personalized messages baristas had to write on each cup) , I was skeptical. I even said as much…
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You Are Your Decisions, Not Your Intentions
I have a confession. I have a habit, and my husband will absolutely back me up on this, of telling him that I thought about buying him something. I see something, think “oh he would love that,” life gets busy, and the thought never turns into action. And I always say the same thing when…
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