Why Onlyness is the Key to Overturning Power Structures This post originally appeared on Medium. Think back, and remember the first time you were valued for yourself. Someone saw your shining capacity …
IN HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: The Insidious Economic Impact of Sexual Harassment
Yesterday, I published the below article in Harvard Business Review. I started writing this piece about two months ago, thinking somehow that it was "timely." Sadly, the news cycle kept …
Is Denise Young Smith of Apple Right?
Could 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men constitute a diverse group? That’s what Denise Young Smith, Apple’s Diversity exec, recently suggested and then, because of the Internet blowback, had to apologize for saying. …
How to Effect Change at Work When You’re “The First” or “The Only”
An executive was recounting a recent work “failure” and asking for some advice. She had been brought in to a software product company to add her UX (user design) experience. …
It’s what you do that defines you
How often I think of thanking the people who have been helpful. But then, I don't act on it. Sometimes it's because I feel like that might make that person …
GET YOUR IDEAS THROUGH
A friend* went to a workshop that the OpEd project runs, whose objective was to teach how to claim and state their opinions so clearly, that they shape the opinions …
Upright and Breathing
Yes, I’m alive. Thanks, Andy, for checking in. No, I’ve not written on the blog for nine months. This is not to say I’ve not written. I’ve written and …
Am I Allowed to Log Off The Internet?
When a Parisian friend learned I had rented a house in the south of France this summer, she was like "now, you're getting the hang of this thing". And then …
How do “new people” get access to Power once denied?
Power informs the fundamental conditions for prosperity. When you understand how Power works, you understand the world. It shapes society: dictating who participates, to what degree they can affect change, …
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