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On a recent trip to California I witnessed two women have a fight over saving an airplane seat.  They said things to each other that I have rarely heard in public.  They called each other names and nearly came to blows.  While many people boarding the plane witnessed the incident, no one said anything to

‘I’ll believe it when you board the airplane without your laptop.’  These were the words that my husband said to me after I declared that I wasn’t going to take any work with me on vacation.  After all, he had good reason to be skeptical.  For most of my career, I would only go on

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher said, ‘Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.’   With all due respect to Mr. Carlyle, I believe his statement is incomplete.  Accomplishment alone does not build self-esteem.  It is the acknowledgement and integration of the accomplishment into one’s being that builds confidence and self-esteem.  This integration frequently gets left behind in

Albert Einstein said “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” But what is the truth? How is it determined? In this era of calling everything that doesn’t agree with your position as fake, it is important to consciously think about what you trust. It is also important

With Spring upon us, many folks are doing Spring cleaning – that time of year when we wash windows, pull out the refrigerator to clean behind it – do all that cleaning that is under and behind.  It gives us a fresh start.  How many of us give our brains the same sort of Spring

Daniel Pink, the author of Free Agent Nation says, “Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it.  You punish something, you get less of it.”  When misbehavior is punished, and rewards are done well, magic can happen.  Teams can achieve far more than they ever thought possible.  However, when parts of this equation

At the beginning of each new year, I like to take stock of the previous year and think of new resolutions. Keeping it simple is key for me to put the resolution into place. This year I have decided to focus on only one item – getting sufficient sleep. I am most productive first thing

The topic of sexual harassment and assault seems to be a part of nearly every conversation I have had over the last month. From my husband asking me about my experience when attending engineering school and working in the corporate world, to my daughter asking about the process for reporting an incident, to a client

My daughter recently got married. We didn’t employ a wedding planner and did much of the work ourselves. She and I developed a very good, detailed plan so that everyone involved knew what the couple wanted, what the individuals helping were responsible for, and when things were supposed to happen over the course of the

You come into work one morning and your manager says to you ‘Congratulations! You have just been promoted to manager!’ How you feel about this change could range from ‘terrific, this is something that I have been working towards’ to ‘holy crap – now what do I do?’ The transition to management is not easy