Archive for September, 2008

I love the feeling of knowing I just delivered a great class or a powerful coaching session. Yet how I define “great” and “powerful” has shifted for me over time.
For years, I said that learning was my highest value. When I received a good evaluation for a class, it meant that I had created a [...]

One of the facts about many high-achieving women that boggles me is around the concept of perfection. I generally see high-achievers as risk takers. Yet if you are a true perfectionist, you will probably avoid doing things you can’t do well. Or  if you discover you can’t do it well, you give up trying.
This might [...]

I was passionately explaining to my boss the virtue of my grand idea and my frustration with the executive team for not “getting it.” He took my hand, patted it and said, “Dear, you can quit fighting now. You’ve made it.”
I pulled my hand away from him and gasped. His truth had taken my breath [...]

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”–Virginia Woolf
Thank all of you who posted after my last comment on the selection of Palin as a VP candidate…this isn’t the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him. The women who wrote offer wonderful programs for emerging women leaders [...]