Insights

You’ve got the Sunday night blues. You return texts and emails at all hours. You see photos of the Google campus and immediately start checking their job listings. You are impatient and not present with the most important people in your life. Change is a fantastically positive force. But today’s runaway change can leave you […]

When I hear people say, “The only constant today is change,” I feel like they’ve invited the enemy in and are making it dinner. No one seems to question the change or more importantly, look for ways to neutralize or get out in front of it. And I think today’s change has made it super […]

Is Vision Hurting Your Performance? Last week I attended a presentation on Goddesses by Li Edelkoort of Trend Union and a panel discussion by CFO’s from Estee Lauder, Cognizant, Prudential, and Ancestry. Each event was great on its own. The juxtaposition brought some cool insights. First, do you take time to step out of your department to see what’s […]

    What Does Being “Other” Do to Our Confidence? Over the years I’ve had a disproportionate number of clients who are foreign, or children of immigrants, and I am often hired for the international teams in organizations. It doesn’t surprise me. As a child of immigrants, I’ve just assumed people sense a shared experience and […]

Still trying to manage career using strategies that worked in your 20’s?  The trouble is, it’s like the clothes in your closet that aren’t quite right any more.  After promotions, degrees, maybe kids, you can’t just “get back to” where you were.  You need a sophisticated approach that lets you re-assess, integrate your successes and […]

Micro-manager. Hyper-Critical. Steals my ideas. According to a Gallup survey, half of us have left a job to get away from a bad boss. Early in my coaching I had an exciting and profound learning. Clients came to me (very!) eager to get out of their job. My own experience had been one of being […]

What Does Being a Good Girl Cost? Abigail recently had a bumpy exit from a job.  We’d been working on explaining the situation in interviews, and to professional connections in general.  After several weeks of not getting her groove, I finally said, “Scr** it. Why don’t you just say the truth.  Your employer botched it. […]

Managing Overwhelm “Tell me how to manage the constant tug of war between work and life.” I don’t remember now whether this working woman had kids or not. But it hardly matters — so many of us suffer from overwhelm, and don’t have the clarity of focus. What has us constantly pushing to the edge […]

This week an executive asked me for techniques on accountability. How do we hold our teams and colleagues accountable?  And how to we provide feedback when they don’t hold up their part of the bargain? The simple answer is trust.  When there is trust in the relationship, people can set goals that both parties will […]

How a Sense of Purpose Motivates at Work   Ask anyone what gives them a sense of purpose and the answer is almost universal — help others.  That first question is easy — it seems the desire to give back to humanity is part of our instinct.  It’s the next question that gets people stumped: […]