I have been on small teams and very large ones, and what’s interesting to me is that no matter what size the team, I always found myself struggling with the split between “doing the work” and “writing and thinking strategically …
Tag: Professional Development
Role-modeling strength and vulnerability
Last week, I sent my daughter off to college. I dropped her and my husband off at the San Francisco airport—she is going to school in Washington DC, and my husband and I agreed that he would handle the logistics …
Finding the meaning in work again
[With asides.] I think there is an epidemic going on at the moment. I think that for many people, work has lost meaning—or, they are struggling to make their jobs mean something within the context of so many other things …
Put a little love in your life
I have had so many conversations with people who are in a multi-dimensional funk right now, for many good reasons, ranging from the hell we’re going through in this country to terrible life events that come out of nowhere and …
What managers do
A long time ago, in a job far, far away, I worked on a team of people where all of us had different roles and functions and a shared set of goals. And for the most part, we all liked …
That horse I rode in on…
I’m in the midst of a…directional change. I set up this website originally for the purpose of hanging out my independent consulting shingle. And I knew perfectly well, when I did this back in February, that it was NOT gonna …
Communications: Egg to Adult
Throughout my career, many people have either approached me or been referred to me for advice about careers in communications. I always try to make time to accommodate these requests (although I can’t respond to them all), mostly because during …
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