I feel like I learn this lesson at least once a day: when I am confident in my decisions, my plans, my action, I am always right. The thing goes well, I make the right choice, good outcomes occur. But when I start to doubt myself, things go awry: people can’t agree on what we…
This is a ridiculous new post series of business advice I’m learning and relearning and relearning and relearning every day. I led a meeting today that I was very, very prepared for—great deck, great ideas, great contributions from my team. And it gave me this badass “don’t give a fuck” attitude about the team that…
Feminist or not, it’s undoubtedly hard to navigate the various expectations around being female these days, what with their contradictions, restrictions, freedoms, and hypocrisies. Here are a few articles that explore some of these concepts, with telling quotes pulled out from each. “I wonder why we understand ownership so much better when we’re talking…
Dammit sometimes it sucks being a woman. No, it sucks being discounted automatically based on something innate, in this case gender, no matter who you are. I started this post a few months ago with the headline and a vague concept to rant about things that people tell me to chill out about because it’s…
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In launches today, and like any other plugged-in, ambitious twentysomething, I pre-ordered it and can’t wait to rip into the book that should be sitting in my mailbox right now. I find women’s workplace dynamics so interesting, and while that’s not the focus on Sandberg’s book per se, it’s certainly a part of…