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What To Do When Your Boss Undermines You

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019

In that meeting, someone asked a question about the business opportunity for the topic you were all discussing. You gave the answer that you and your boss had already discussed, “it’s …

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Stop Generalizing Women as You Try to Advance Women

April 6, 2019April 11, 2019

A headline of a recent NYT piece was so appealing, “What Happens When Women Stop Leading Like Men” that I couldn’t double click fast enough. But then I got sad. …

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In Harvard Business Review: Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates

March 28, 2019December 1, 2019

75% of perfectly qualified candidates don’t make it through the main screening tool used by corporations. This post originally appeared in Harvard Business Review.  I could tell right away from …

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Other People’s Onlyness Matters, Too

January 31, 2019February 1, 2019

Wake up an hour earlier to get a jump on things. Answer all the emails because it’s polite. Spend part of every Sunday strategizing so you can better direct your …

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What Deep Support Looks Like

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019

“What does deep support for onlyness look like?” a colleague emailed. I wanted to write back, isn’t it obvious?! But then different stories popped to mind. Between friends, and colleagues. …

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What Do You Need to Know?

September 19, 2018October 31, 2018

Sarah Judd Welch, a friend and colleague, reminded me I’ve not been writing much on my blog for the last few months and shouldn’t I be? I wrote her back …

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What Will Happen To Your Job?

June 13, 2018December 1, 2019

Most jobs today are scoped in such a way they’ll be easily replaced by artificial intelligence. I remember being slightly nauseous when I learned that 60% of US jobs and …

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Have You Done Your Part?

June 7, 2018June 8, 2018

When I walked up to the registration desk, the people there seemed, I don’t know… almost disappointed to see my check-in. Not long after, I was standing next to the 3×4’ sign …

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On Leadership as Purpose Alignment: Q&A with the London School of Economics

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018

Earlier this week, the London School of Economics and Political Science shared a Q&A that we worked on together about how to scale ideas through networks. While all of the …

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