Confidence Leads to Promotions and Increased Social Status
A soon to be published study, A Status Enhancement Account of Overconfidence, from the Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley reveals that overconfidence helps people attain more respect, prominence, and influence. Confidence may or may not be...
Evict Your Obnoxious Roomate: The Negative Self-Talk That Holds You Back
Last week I attended the Pennsylvania Conference for Women and had the pleasure of hearing Arianna Huffington speak. She shared her ideas about what it takes to be successful for a woman in business today. My biggest take-away from her talk was when she spoke about...
Jennifer versus John in the Workplace: Jennifer loses!
Imagine this. You are a competent, highly skilled woman. You work hard and expect that opportunities for advancement will present themselves. But, they dont. Youre puzzled. Youre doing everything youve been told to get ahead and its not working. Whats going on?...
How Does Willful Blindness Affect Your Success?
A wise woman told me early in my career, that I should hire to my weakness. In other words, figure out the things that I am not particularly good at or that I hate to do and hire people who excel at these things. For example, I am not a great detail person. Assembling...
Asking for Help: Does Your Fear Hold You Back from Advancing Your Career?
This past week on my radio show, GPS Your Career, I had a lively discussion with Margaret Heffernan about what it takes for women to be successful in business today. Quickly the conversation turned to the importance of building relationships for career advancement and...
Are You Still In The Closet About Your Ambition?
I had a client, a female attorney for a large healthcare system, tell me last week that when she approached her boss about her desire to move her career forward, he was surprised. That prompted me to think about our relationship to ambition, how others in the...
You May Dislike Politics But You Need to Be Politically Savvy To Get Ahead
The Republican National Convention took place last week and the Democratic National Convention is coming up soon. As the November election approaches, we are bombarded with local and national political ads on TV, radio, print, and online with increased frequency. As a...
What’s Your Biggest Weakness? How to Handle Tough Interview Questions with Finesse
Youve been searching for a job for some time and after a frustrating few months, you finally landed an interview for an interesting job at a great company. Congratulations! But this is only the beginning of a series of interviews as the organization narrows their...
Investing in Your Business and Career: Coming to Terms with Your Issues
In my blog last week, Get Savvy: 10 Tips to Help You be Successful in Business, I talked about the things that I feel have helped me make my business successful. I asked for feedback and a few people responded that they thought that #3, Investing in Your Business,...