Excellent resume, great credentials, senior title or up-and-coming – on paper you look fabulous and have it all together. But what happens when you feel like something is missing, or a challenge won’t go away, or something you are reaching for stays out of reach? There is an underlying expectation in the professional world that…
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I am both a business consultant and the co-founder of a technology start-up. The two jobs give me a great opportunity to come face to face with the fact that I am not always great at taking my own good advice. As a consultant I am very good at assessing a situation and providing realistic…
I remember being on the phone with a client who was refusing to pay for services that were completed, and delivered, and actually out in market being used. And he said to me, “you know, you aren’t very nice. If you were nicer to me I might want to pay. But I don’t want to…
Want more time in your day, less stress, and to feel more accomplished? There’s a process for that… I tend to write more life opinion and less work focus, but I think developing processes for functioning is really important for everything we do. Note – I didn’t say “routines” though those can be a part…
For the last two years, in addition to the other work I do, I have been a part of a “start-up.” The word “start-up” seems to be Silicon Valley speak for unprofitable company, or maybe technology based company but I don’t really know what is not technology based anymore. I have a friend who works…
I read many professional resources for managing business, employees, life, balance – I like to gather lots of perspectives on how to simply manage it all and it is curious to me how much information out there contradicts so much other information out there, and how much of all of that good advice would require…
Eggs that is. Perhaps you have heard about the new perk you get as a woman working at Apple or Facebook. No more do you need to worry about pesky things like biology or nature, these have been concurred. Having children while also working or building your career is no longer something you have to…
Observations from my most recent business trip… Here is what my day is like so far: up at 8 in the morning except my body thinks it’s 5 because I have only been where I am for thirty-six hours. Meetings for seven hours where I have to be alert, creative, thoughtful and demanding, also nice…
Once upon a time there was a simple blazer, navy blue with a classic mother-of –pearl button, nothing special to look at, just the classic blue jacket of business dress everywhere. But this blazer had a magic power, anyone who put it on was instantly transformed into an appropriately dressed professional whatever the situation and…
Faith Works 