Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Wanlee Prachyapanaprai) What do you envision when you think of someone with disabilities? Odds are you picture someone in a wheelchair or someone who wears dark glasses and walks with a cane or … You get the picture. But the reality is that, in the workplace, 62 percent of disabilities are non-apparent. […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (useng) What happens when two very honest and successful women – like Viola Davis and Jameela Jamil – get together to talk about the things that hold women back? Yup. You hear a lot of honesty about perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and how to navigate them. The problem of perfectionism “Perfection is the […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (danijelala) Ellen McGirt, an award-winning journalist who covers race, culture, and leadership for Fortune, put the question directly to Frances Haugen: “How do you recommend that somebody who needs to tell truth to power, to build a better way within their organization, do it?” Here’s what Haugen – a data engineer whose […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Kateryna Onyshchuk) When people talk about being exhausted and mentally drained from their workday, it’s most likely not because of the physical aspect of their job. Although some jobs require a lot of physical labor, most of the “laboring” is the emotional component. Emotional labor is the definition of managing feelings […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (shapecharge) When Celine Martin was promoted to Vice President and became part of the management team at Johnson & Johnson, she felt she had three strikes against her. She was the youngest, she was a non-native English speaker, and she was a woman. But before her first meeting with the team, her […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (fizkes) Academy Award-winning actress and advocate Marlee Matlin became deaf at 18 months old. Then one day, at around eight or nine, she was watching TV and noticed a deaf actor signing — or, as she put it, “speaking my language.” Immediately, she thought, “If she can do it, why can’t I?” […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Yutthana Gaetgeaw) Daniel Pink, a speaker at the Massachusetts Conference for Women, is one of the best-selling nonfiction authors of the last decade with his books on work, business, and behavior. He joined us recently for a conversation about his latest book, Power of Regret, and what leaders need to know about […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Chinnapong) Q: You’ve written that pursuing productivity for productivity’s sake does not lead to satisfaction. In fact, it is diametrically opposed to it. What do you mean? When you are getting things done just to get things done and checking things off the list, most of those things move other people’s agendas […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Nastya Bevz) We’ve all heard of a SWOT analysis. One of the most popular ways to analyze a business or when project planning. Some of us may have been exposed to our first professional SWOT analysis in a college course or early into our careers. The whole concept was derived from being […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com/portfolio/DamirCudic On the night of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Peabody Award-winning journalist Mariana Atencio had her colorful dress ready to go. Then the phone rang. It was her manager with a message: “Don’t look too Latina.” So, she went to Saks Fifth Avenue and chose a more somber black-and-white dress. Then, […]