There may be lots of articles and books and podcasts about what it takes to be a great leader, but this audio podcast presented by Bob Sutton had some great hallmarks of great leaders.

Over the last three years, I've learned that I'm a startup girl. I love the chaotic, exciting, difficult life of a startup. Honestly, it surprised me. I'm not sure why - I've always loved working in small, hard-working groups. My university had 18,000 undergrads and yet I ended up in a program where I knew almost everyone in my 60-person (hey that was a decently small size!) classes.

This boston.com recent article (or, republished article) on the "college rejection letter" got me thinking how important it is to actually get those rejection letters. (Hat tip to @KylePaice for tweeting out the article.)

I'm excited to share a video that was posted by one of very own blog readers (and of course fellow HubSpotter extraordinaire), Yoav Shapira. This video presentation, "Broken meetings (and how you'll fix them)" had some great tips that I just had to pass on, despite finding that the presenter himself was a bit annoying (sorry).

I'm a big believer in the power of your mindset over your success and happiness in work and life. A positive mindset has pulled me through a bunch of hard times and a negative mindset has dragged me through the mud even when things were going pretty darn well for me.