I’ve discovered a lot about myself in the past few years. For most of my career, I lived in a hyper-productive state, always on the go, operating in a State of Crazy, so much to do and so little time! I thrived on that highly charged, highly-caffeinated...
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...
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...
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...
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....
I’m not immune to making mistakes. It’s a rare day when I don’t make three of them. Before breakfast. Like the other day, when I neglected to notice that the lid to the oatmeal I was going to make was not securely latched (mistake #1 probably from...