What Success Looks Like: A “Woohoo,” “Yippee” or “Thank You”

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Latham & Watkins’ CHRO takes pride in a little hard-earned team-effort recognition By Josh Friedlander Most of us have different roles.  At the same time we are leaders, managers, parents, spouses, siblings, children and team members, as well as friends, consumers and bystanders. Simultaneous success in each of our roles is difficult, if not impossible, because at times success in …

What Success Looks Like: A Sunny Saturday

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A day free of responsibilities is a sign of success for Forefront’s editorial director. Success, to me, looks like a sunny summer Saturday—whether one with plans you’ve been looking forward to for weeks, or one with no set agenda. Either way, you’ve tackled a week’s worth of to-dos, taking care of day-to-day responsibilities and chipping away at bigger-picture efforts. Having …

The Picture of Success: What Does it Look Like To You?

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Success looks different to everyone. Share what it looks like to you, and you could have a chance of being featured on the Forefront Magazine blog. Achieving success looks different to everyone, and it is rarely in monetary form.  At Forefront, we feature executives and leaders in their fields who have a clear vision of what success means, and it …

Don’t Let Dinner Pass You By

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Melissa Lanz, author of “The Fresh 20,” explains how amid a busy schedule she has created a plan for making eating healthy and simple Introduction by Jaclyn Crawford If you are anything like me, when you get home, making dinner can work its way to being the last priority. Sure you could prepare an elaborate meal like you had envisioned …

Seven Tips for Achieving Excellence: From the Perspective of a Health Care Executive

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How can you achieve excellence? Eric Barber,  CEO of Northeast Regional Medical Center shares his tips. By Eric Barber, with an introduction by Jaclyn Crawford We all remember those posters we saw on the walls growing up in school: The ones with a scenic picture that read “perseverance” or “success.” Those tend to be nice wall decorations, but what if …

Five Ways to Motivate Your Workforce

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Have you noticed a lack of excitement in employees when it comes to their work? Gary Kunath shares how you can revive your office. Employees have evolved in the past 10 years or so; they have different priorities. What makes them happy today is very different from what we once focused on as employee motivators. To get the most out …

Fight the Fat: Turn Your Ordinary Office into a Space to Get Fit

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Most of us spend our workday sitting. We asked Glenneth Reed, Fitness Blogger at Let’s Talk and Walk, to give her suggestions on creative ways to stay fit at the office. With a full-time desk job, I spend almost 40 hours a week sitting in front of the computer and that’s not talking about the time I spend at home …

Ten Steps to Get that Promotion You’ve Been Eyeing

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 With appropriate planning and strategy, you can reach that promotion you’ve been eyeing An increasing trend in corporate America today is the feeling of being “stuck” in your current job, with little to slow opportunity for promotion. More executives are staying put because of economic conditions, fear of the unknown and valuing what they have even though they may be …

One Year Later: A Follow-Up with Barbara Kallay

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VP of HR at Royal Caribbean, Barbara Kallay, elaborates on how she has adapted to her changing work environment Editor’s Note: In our Nov/Dec 2012 edition, we spoke with Barbara Kallay about her first six months as VP of Human Resources (HR) at Royal Caribbean. Now that she has been working in the role for more than a year, the …