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The Journey with Joan Ball
What do We Expect From Marissa Mayer?
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Joan Ball
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer raised eyebrows when she took the helm of the faltering tech company last year. Not only was she the youngest ever female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, she was 5 months pregnant when she got the gig. Don’t worry, she assured tech watchers. “My maternity leave will be a few…
Choices, Choices, Choices: How Do You Decide?
By
Joan Ball
I sat for about two hours yesterday with a student who asked me to help her figure out what to do next with her life. She is a senior, graduating in may with a near 4.0 cumulative average. She’s a hard worker with 3 or 4 internships at impressive companies under her belt. I was…
Behind the Mask: Is There a True Self?
By
Joan Ball
This poem has been haunting me lately… No one lives his life. Disguised since childhood, haphazardly assembled from voices and fears and little pleasures, we come of age as masks. Our true face never speaks. Somewhere there must be storehouses where all these lives are laid away like suits of armor or old carriages or…
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