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…
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While in residence at a startup incubator, I witnessed the culture of startups and small organizations first hand within a small petri dish in midtown New York City. It is definitely unique. An environment like…
Last month, I had the honor of partnering with Power To Fly on a session all about mentoring. What it means, what it really means, and how to get the most out of it. We…
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…
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. The future depends entirely on what each…
The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging. The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win. It is possible to read…
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…
What you endure is who you are. And if you just accept and do nothing, then life goes on. But if you see it as a way for change, life doesn’t have to be so…