Last weekend, I toured an exhibit on French Women’s Fashion and World War I. There was a strong aesthetic distinction between pre-war and post-war. In this case, pre-war was fancy and extravagant (a time when…
Tag: Career
So you wanna break up with your mentor? You’re not alone. It’s a funny meta moment when a mentee asks me how to handle another mentor. Usually it’s an assigned mentor at work or a…
“Fake it ‘til you make it” is common advice. But what do you do when you make it? Do we ever really make it? And if you do, how do you live with yourself for…
Whether it’s for a new job or that perfect partner, patience is both something that’s easy to loathe and hard to practice. It’s the boiled broccoli of virtues. Consider this month’s reader request: My job…
A few days after the new year I felt a palpable weight. And, no, not necessarily from the extra holiday pie. I found myself double-backing on certain decisions with the itching thought, “I don’t want…
I have a lot of gratitude for spending nearly a decade working inside the entertainment industry. From intern to senior vice president, I saw it all. From angry audience emails to backstabbing co-workers to Matt…
It happens to the best of us. I worked with a programming executive whose solution to most everything was to eliminate people from meetings. He was convinced this was the source of leaks, which also…
Nearly 40% of our users work in technology. So I jumped at the chance to persuade Marjorie to join our mentor network. She is a former senior executive at Verizon where she developed, built, and…
