Imagine, you are 29-years old, you graduated top of your class from a prestigious university. Your family is super proud that you got that coveted job at a well-established company. Today, you're standing outside your office at a busy city crosswalk, head hanging down with a sign around your neck reading, "I screwed up at work." Your boss ordered you to stand there all day. Living in Tokyo for about 5 years, I often saw this kind of work punishment doled out. As a Westerner, this kind of shaming seemed so foreign, so, well, wrong. How … [Read more...]
Love is What We Need (There’s Proof, Really)
September 19, 2013
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It is the last day of Love Fest 2013, a virtual event that Dr. Maria Church and Laura Wilson convened so that 13 speakers could share how they infuse love into their work on sports, business, sales, leadership and more. When Maria asked if I'd be interested in sharing my thoughts on how love is part of my work focused on 'ordinary' Main Street women, democracy and leadership, I hesitated. You see, I'm a data-driven person, the kind of person who wants to see evidence. People I work with expect to hear me ask, "How do we know what's working?" … [Read more...]
Focus, Persistence, and Falling Off The Ladder
August 27, 2013
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Late last week I fell off a ladder. Don’t worry, I’m okay now. I was writing away on my book… Well that’s a lie, a tiny fib really. Here’s the truth. I was sitting at my computer staring at the last paragraph I’d written for the book I’m finishing, The Flight Patterns of Superwomen, praying the next halfway decent sentence would come soon. After about one hour and forty-eight minutes of staring at the last words I'd strung together, I realized that stuck near the top of a tree outside my window were what appeared to be the remnants of … [Read more...]
