I found Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s recent article on sponsorship in the New York Times interesting, but missing the last piece of the puzzle.   As I’ve written and talked about, sponsors are distinct from mentors, and critical for career advancement, especially for women and minorities.  It’s harder to find...

I spent the morning yesterday working with a group of ABA Litigation Section volunteers in Chicago, thinking about how we can take one of our favorite programs, the ABA’s Judicial Intern Opportunity Program, to the next level.  For more than 10 years we’ve been recruiting and screening applicants from...

The Four Disciplines of Execution, by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling Let me start by saying I love this book!  I’m a fan of simple, common sense pointers, and 4DX doesn’t disappoint.  The First Discipline is that beyond keeping the day-to-day business moving forward (the “whirlwind”), leaders...

I had the privilege of meeting Maurice Bloem Tuesday night.  Maurice is the executive vice president of Church World Service, a cooperative ministry of 37 Christian communions born in the aftermath of World War II, working together to eradicate hunger and poverty and promote peace and justice among the...

I had the opportunity to spend Saturday with the Board of Directors of the Saint Vincent’s Day Home, facilitating their annual board retreat.  If you don’t know about the great work of the Day Home, you should.  They are a child development center in West Oakland, where they have...

Several of the mid-career leaders I coach have said that they cannot expand their role because what they do “is not scalable.”  Translated, they mean that while they have mastered the ability to lead their departments or the teams working on their projects, they don’t have bandwidth for greater...

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I fell off the blogging wagon over the last two weeks, and resolved that I would resume regular blogging once April rolled around.  It seemed a bad omen to resume on April Fool’s Day, but there’s no reason not to post today. I generally like to blog – it...