Trying to overcorrect is a great way to find middle ground.
At a certain point it’s your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters. One of the things I tell people these days is that there is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next b...
We all want a job or role that truly excites and engages us. This search requires both focus and flexibility, so I recommend adopting two concurrent goals: a long-term dream and an eighteen-month plan...
One of the things I tell people these days is that there is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather...
We all want the same thing: to feel comfortable with our choices and to feel validated by those around us. So let’s start by validating one another. Mothers who work outside the home should regard mot...
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
Adam has published five different studies demonstrating that meaningful work buffers against burnout.
Author Bruce Feiler believes the problem lies in the offer to do anything. He writes that while well meaning, this gesture unintentionally shifts the obligation to the aggrieved. Instead of offering ‘...
Being forthright led to opportunity. Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid sacrifice.
Beliefs: (1) they have some control over their lives; (2) they can learn from failure; (3) they matter as human beings; and (4) they have real strengths to rely on and share.
To quote the Roman philosopher Seneca (and the song Closing Time): Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
We hold ourselves back not just out of fear of seeming too aggressive but also by underestimating our abilities. Ask a woman to explain why she’s successful and she’ll credit luck, hard work, and help...
Hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. We internalize the negative messages we get thro...
This phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt has a name---the impostor syndrome.
At the time, I didn’t know how to respond. Now I would say yes. I made this my thing because we need to disrupt the status quo. Staying quiet and fitting in may have been all the first generations of...
As activist Marlo Thomas wryly joked on Equal Pay Day 2011, Forty years and eighteen cents. A dozen eggs have gone up ten times that amount.11
What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
But instead of blaming women for not negotiating more, we need to recognize that women often have good cause to be reluctant to advocate for their own interests because doing so can easily backfire.
The promise of equality is not the same as true equality. A
Survivor guilt is a thief of joy—yet another secondary loss from death.
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