Where to Go When Your ‘Get Up and Go’ is Gone

Where to Go When Your ‘Get Up and Go’ is Gone

I see you, you Goal-Driven-Getting-After-It-Gal. You’re up and at it! Running the meeting AND running the 5k. Organizing the office party AND organizing your pantry. Driving greater department profits AND driving the kids to soccer practice. Cooking up industry...
The Many Contradictions of a Capable Leader

The Many Contradictions of a Capable Leader

How do you lead? With anything in particular? With a little bit of everything? Much has been written about the expectations for a new generation of leaders and the need to be multifaceted. (Not multi-faced. Multifaceted!) What is a multifaceted leader? Mirriam-Webster...
Live Your Life in Technicolor

Live Your Life in Technicolor

Three months earlier I sat with a friend as she pondered her next career move. A seasoned and skilled executive, she had been marginalized by a company that both overworked and undervalued her. She had been passed over for a promotion that went to a man with less...
Are You the Office Cauliflower?

Are You the Office Cauliflower?

It must be exhausting for cauliflower. There was a time when cauliflower could just be… cauliflower. A steamed vegetable on a platter, the side dish no one ever really wanted. Maybe occasionally pureed into a soup… that few chose to lead off their meal....