Career
You Don't Have to Be Ready for Every Opportunity
Most of us can name an opportunity we read once, felt a flicker of interest in, and then closed. The page stayed open in a tab for a day or two while a qui...
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The Broken Rung in the Path to Leadership
Most of us were handed the same picture of how women get stuck at work. A ladder stretches upward, and near the top there is a pane of glass that lets you...
Career
The Experience You Don't Think Counts
A woman runs the school fundraiser, and it raises more money than it did the year before. She keeps the household budget balanced through a stretch when tw...
Leadership
The Invisible Work Women Do
Somewhere in almost every office, a birthday card is traveling from desk to desk. Someone bought it, someone found a pen that still writes, and someone rem...
Career
The Hidden Cost of Being the Reliable Employee
Every workplace has one person who never drops a thing. She remembers whose birthday falls on Thursday, rewrites the client deck at nine at night, and know...
Career
Not Every Woman Wants to Be a Boss
Most workplaces have a woman everyone relies on. She knows the clients, solves the problem before anyone notices it, and trains the new hires without being...
Career
The Follow-up that Keeps A Good Introduction moving
Most good introductions end the same way. Two people talk for thirty minutes, the conversation is warm, someone says "Let's keep in touch,"...
Career
Why a Full Contact List Is Not a Strong Network
You can know hundreds of people and still have no one who understands what you do, what you need, or when to mention your name. This is the most common net...
Career
The Skills That Make You Valuable at Work
Ask most people what makes someone valuable at work and you will get an answer about competence. She is good at her job. She knows the technical material....
Career
When Did Being Good at Your Job Become Managing Everyone's Feelings?
The planning meeting ends at 3:30, and you have ninety minutes to finish the budget summary due tomorrow morning. You are halfway back to your desk when Da...
Career
Reinventing Yourself Without Starting From Zero
The sentence that stops most reinventions is some version of I would have to start over. A woman says it about a field she has been curious about for six y...
Career
10 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Career Before 2027
Most year-end career reflection is really goal setting wearing a disguise. You look back briefly, decide what you want next, write it down, and the looking...
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