I’ll never forget sitting in my office late one night, staring at the glow of my computer screen, and realizing: I can’t keep doing this. I was exhausted.I was angry.And I was questioning whether this company where I had poured 8 years of my life, now under new...
Over the course of my corporate career, my stories of sexual harassment are too numerous to share. They span from overt sexual invitations to off color comments. In the beginning of my career especially, there wasn’t a day that I didn’t hear inappropriate remarks,...
In the workplace today, if you want to advance your ideas and your career, it’s not just about how hard you work or how well you perform, though those matter. It’s about your ability to shape perceptions, build alliances, and move others to act. For women,...
Lisa can be impatient and reactive. Her defensiveness prevents her from listening to others. As a result, she often triggers and turns people off, and in the workplace, she has been labeled as ‘difficult’ to work with. Supportive of her talent and career yet...
My new boss was a prominent member of the boy’s club. A buddy of the CEO at my company, he was brought in by him to assume the role of SVP in the northeast. My first impression was hardly positive. We met in a noisy hotel bar at our first national conference together...
Early in my career, I was hired by a former boss from another company as a regional sales manager for a national healthcare staffing company. I was certainly qualified for the job with a track record of increasing revenue growth at previous companies. But the young...
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