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5 Common Mistakes That Can Kill Your Promotion
You work hard for a promotion and give it your best shot. But what if your hard work isn’t enough? What if you’re not doing the right things? Worse yet, could you be making these mistakes without knowing it and killing your chances?
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How to Build Your Network in 5 Minutes a Day
Your network is one of your most important assets. But how can you fit networking activities into your already overstretched day? Use this simple strategy. It has generated the most “quick wins” for me and it will for you, too.
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9 Capabilities to Achieve Career Success
At any given point in your career, people will be forming opinions on whether you’ve “got what it takes” to make it to the next level. Which of these capabilities would make the biggest difference for you if you worked on it now?
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Leadership In Adversity
Life is complicated. Things don’t always go the way we expect, much less the way we want. Yet, it is often adversity that brings out our best leadership qualities. For Steve, that moment came in early October when his wife Ann had a serious...
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5 Ideas For Keeping Your Composure
Keeping your composure when you feel safe is easy. The question is how to regain and retain it when you are no longer in your comfort zone, when you feel out of your element. Add pressure to any situation (speed it up, raise the stakes,...
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Winning, Losing and The Case For Composure
Sports tournaments make for some interesting lessons on leadership and performance, and these apply equally to business and life overall. Last week, I had the chance to observe first hand the dynamics of winning and losing at the Women’s U18...
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My Role In The World – Making a Difference
Recently, I have become fixated on what my role in the world should be. I find myself grappling with questions along the lines of: What is my next era of meaningful work? What is my best and highest use to society? Where can I make a real...
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Life Lesson From Top Chef: Staying True To Yourself
I was watching Top Chef just to “hang out” with my daughter (she’s 13, so you grab those opportunities when you can), and it turned out to be an unexpectedly great learning experience. What’s more, it was my daughter who pointed out this...
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Are We Creating Unhappy Women?
A friend of mine is terribly worried that our next generation of high-achieving women may be destined for unhappiness because they will have difficulty in finding husbands. Are our self-affirming messages to today’s smart, capable young women...
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The Tricky Business Of Managing To Stay On Top
I am fascinated by the unravelling of General Stanley McChrystal. Not having met the man personally, I have only the media reports to go by. Based on this, three lessons on how to stay on top occurred me, all of which apply to business...
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She’s Inspiring At 69
Have you heard about Mamyrock, the new British DJ who is taking Europe by storm? (TimesOnline: http://bit.ly/bY7XBm)She happens to be a 69-year old grandmother and former “trailing spouse” who started this new career just a handful of years ago. How...
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Are You Still Waiting For Someone To Choose You?
Those of us who have ever waited for someone else to select us -- whether for a team, a job, or even a relationship -- will know that it is not a happy state of being. My most recent waiting game (for a publisher to choose to publish my book)...
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What Goes Around Comes Around
Yesterday morning, someone lashed out at me verbally, including some unkind statements and a veiled threat. He was upset because something I inadvertently had done while helping a third person was causing him delay on his journey. Without...
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What Is Better: A One Or Two Page CV / Resume?
There is no single "right" answer to this question, at least not in a generic sense. It really depends: on what the applicant has to say, how the organization likes to receive the information, and what they may view as "standing out from the...
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Is It Okay To Say “That’s So Gay”?
Chatting with friends yesterday evening, one fellow parent related that her 15-year old son (let’s call him Jack, which is not his real name) had been reprimanded by his teacher for saying, “you’re so gay” to a classmate. As a straight-A...
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