Has there ever been a generation as stereotyped in the workplace as the Millenials?  They’ve come of their “professional age” during the Great Recession, which would be tough enough, but they are then typecast as spoiled, entitled, the Trophy kids, you name it.  I think everyone has something to...

Did you catch Monday’s apology from the dean of Harvard Business School, for the school’s sometimes offensive treatment of its women professors and students?   Apparently Harvard has been prompted to improve its ways in part due to an unflattering profile in the New York Times last year, recounting...

I’m happy to post a link to the latest issue of the Professional Development Consortium’s newsletter, the Linkletter, with my article on Sponsorship Demystified starting on page 3.  Thank you to Lani Walser, my co-presenter on the subject at last summer’s PDC conference in Seattle, who generously wrote the...

Did you see last week’s research paper from The Glass Hammer on women in tech?  A survey of 200 junior and mid-level women in technology roles were presented with ten traits of leaders, and asked to pick three that describe today’s leaders.  They were later asked to select the three...

This Spring’s ABA Litigation Section Leadership meeting was one of the best ever, imho. We made significant progress on planning and decisions for the next bar year with respect to one of my favorite Section projects, the Judicial Intern Opportunity Program, and worked through a very full agenda on...

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 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...

 Join an eight-week virtual Confidential Coaching Circle limited to only six mid-career women attorneys, and master the skills and strategies you need to succeed in your legal career.  Starting April 30, 2013, and led by former law firm partner and certified executive coach Nan Joesten, the group will engage...

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...

The questions that you ask yourself, and others, changes things.  As an easy example, thinking about what is best in your life, or your work, rather than what you don’t enjoy about your life or work will take you in entirely different directions.  Appreciative Inquiry grew out of the...