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Is your boss evil?
Thank you for taking the first step and reading this post. You are probably here because you have been asking that question, over and over again: Is my boss evil? And you’ve answered it, “Yes,” multiple times. I mean, you’ve got evidence from your overbearing workload, the snide remarks, the ways you’ve been treated, and…
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Do you have a strategy?
You’re there again. Yet another strategic planning meeting. More goals. More big audacious goals to be exact. More metrics to hit. More numbers. More feeling like you did something with your time. But did you? The more I dive into the world of strategy, the more I come to believe that many of us are…
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This bigger issue you missed about the “Bezos gala”
Last week, there was an uproar about the Met Gala. And let’s be real, it was there in the weeks prior, too. It wasn’t about the general excess that the event was known for. No, it was about who would be there. Jeff Bezos and his new wife, Lauren Sanchez, were named honorary co-chairs of…
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A little lesson from Victoria’s Secret’s past
I was doing a deep dive to learn more about the initial launch of Victoria’s Secret Rapture, and then I landed in a pile of marketing info. While there I came across a 2003 article in Brandweek about Victoria’s Secret Beauty. Writer Christine Bittar interviewed executives in Victoria’s Secret Beauty and made this observation about…
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The gesture
I came home to a box, an unexpected package. Fragile, it read. “Dearest member…” It was a box of chocolates from a beauty brand I shop with, a gesture of appreciation for the season. I could have easily ordered my own box of chocolates. I certainly could have diverted what I spent on their products to…
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The lipstick from Prada is changing my mind about mattes
This is not what I expected to experience when I tried the Prada Monochrome Soft Matte lipstick. Me and my dry lips expected instant regret. We expected the dry areas we didn’t even notice to be instantly highlighted. We expected to look chalky, parched even. But not this. The formula glides on my lips. Yes,…
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Prada Paradoxe, but make it intense
This whole week, I’ve been thinking about Prada. It was only right that I chose to finally try Prada Paradoxe Intense. I can’t say whether or not this is truly more intense than the original, but I did wonder to myself, “Is this too much?” It has an aggressively, perhaps, floral fragrance. It reminds me…
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Recognizing myself in her
I complained to a loved one about my job, my boss, and all the frustrations in between. She told me, “You sound like Andy in the Devil Wears Prada.” That is when I decided to rewatch the movie for what would be the first of many times. It had nothing to do with the fashion.…
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I’m hunting down this movie look from The Devil Wears Prada 2
There are days where I wish I could just look an object I desire and immediately know where it’s from and where I can buy it. That power could have come in handy as I watched the many fashion montages in The Devil Wears Prada 2. There is a scene in Milan where Andy Sachs,…
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Did we need Devil Wears Prada tweezers?
Is that what we needed? A set of tweezers with a red pump printed on it? A t-shirt that reads “Gird your loins”? Perhaps we did need the purse shaped popcorn bucket. But overall, I am a bit confused by what appears to be a licensing cash grab in connection to the release of The…
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