I launched this website in early 2018 because I left a full-time executive position at the end of 2017 and was about to launch a practice in communications consulting and writing. (I also wanted to do meeting design and facilitation …
Tag: Management
When people behave poorly in the workplace
From my earliest jobs after college, I have vivid memories of incidents when my bosses at the time called me into their offices to reprimand me for doing something wrong. These dressing-downs were usually about breaking confidentiality – one boss …
The magic of alignment in work
I am six feet under with writing work and also experiencing the emotional whiplash that comes from being a consumer of political news these days, but since I skipped last month’s entry, I felt compelled to write about a topic …
An oldie but goodie
(I keep a personal journal and I ran across this entry from December 2005. A lifetime ago! I decided it was worth re-posting because I know quite a few twentysomethings and the thing is, they all work very hard and …
Being seen and rewarded at work
A dear friend and former colleague of mine emailed me the other day. She recently retired from an organization where I had worked for many years, most of them closely with her, and to this day, she remains one of …
The conflict between communicating and leading
I have always believed that working in communications involves creative thinking. My day-to-day work involves a great deal of creation—messaging, stories, language that I hope will resonate with target audiences. And this is the part of the work that I …
Writing’s hard. Give help. And ask for it.
Over the course of my working life, I’ve been asked to write countless things. Once I write something, I generally remember how to write the thing again, but in lots of cases, I didn’t actually know how to write the …
A plug for managers of the future
I have a remarkable memory, for some things. Once I share experiences with people, I remember everything about them: what they said and what they wore on particular occasions, the names of their spouses and kids and their friends, stories …
When to say something
I once worked with someone who was a well-known expert in her field. Her name frequently came up for advisory committees, invited journal articles, and she had had a federal political appointment job under a previous administration. Our respective jobs …
On the compulsion of honesty
I’ve been noodling around with a blog post on speaking in code—and breaking the code—for a while now, and I’m not sure if that piece is ever going to see the light of day. Some insights strike me really powerfully …
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