Your leaders will work hard on everything, including making you feel like everything is going well.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but there’s no reason for capitalism to have a hard edge. It can and should reflect who we are and who we aspire to be.
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Coaching in the corporate world is fundamentally broken. Same goes for mentoring and sponsorship. The problem is one part developmental challenge (career gamesmanship getting in the way of cognitive growth) and one part structural (i.e., having to coach within the best interests of the Firm, not necessarily the employee).
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There's been a lot of sad news lately about tech companies cutting staff.
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When I first read this headline about an outsourcer letting go of 300 people for moonlighting, I was convinced it was The Onion. I clicked on it fully expecting a joke about how work-life balance was being replaced by work-work balance.
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There are only two times when I turn my camera off during meetings. The first is the obvious one— you do *not* want to see me eating. I was clearly raised by ramen-lovin’ wolves.
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The word promotion has come to mean doing a larger job, sitting in a larger seat. It does not mean doing the same job (better) for more money.
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed at work, let me save you the trouble of googling “how to deal with stress.”
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We *really* need to do more to even the playing field for kids and young adults everywhere.
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If you care about your “GPA” at work or in life....
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What if success is really about whether you find deep purpose in your work? What if success is about taking active ownership over your career or your relationship to your career?
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A former colleague asked me what I do when my career feels stuck. He obviously wasn’t asking for advice. He was asking for a job.
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The most powerful tool in the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) toolkit is sponsorship. If you’re unfamiliar with D&I sponsorship, it’s when a person in power makes it their mission to help land bigger, better opportunities for their junior charge. It's the rather brilliant use of privilege against privilege.
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