Archive for the Wander Women
Is there a need to define female leadership distinct from male leadership? Read the winning entries from the contest defining what a female leader looks like.
I feel absolutely naked.
Metaphorically, of course.
My book is launching June 15th. The closer the date gets, the more I feel paralyzed to do anything. The list of launch activities on my desk is yelling at me. I’m slow to respond.
I know why. I’ve been here before. I’m putting my piece of art on display. What [...]
I had the opportunity to sit at the feet Don Miguel Ruiz and his son, don Jose. I have pages of notes that I feel I can review over and over as I work to see the world from their eyes. Here are a few of the moments of truth they shared with us.
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal that described how our cultures have been shaped by how leaders use their brains. Although the article didn’t state outright that left-brain dominant leaders are at the source of our problems, this is implied in the text. Since men tend to be the heavier users of [...]
Changing your life is all about emotions–acting on them, giving in to them, being sabotaged by them, or being driven to success.
When you want to make a change in your life, you usually want to feel something different than what you are feeling now, right? You may have a desire to feel something more, such [...]
Appreciative Dialogue is based on the popular approach to organizational change called Appreciative Inquiry that focuses people on what’s working rather than trying to fix what’s not. This is an excellent technique to use when you feel stuck and can’t solve a problem. Taking an appreciative approach, you see your issue through a new lens, [...]
A friend shared the following quote with me and it touched me so much I felt compelled to write about it…
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” – Albert Einstein
I know that when I am in the presence of something [...]
How often do you say, “What an idiot?”
I was first in line to go through the security station at my gate in the airport in Amsterdam. Before I could get to the conveyor belt, an airline employee took my passport and told me to go to one of the tables. I obeyed.
There were three pedestals [...]
A new study from Catalyst came out last month that basically says women with MBAs are still being treated as inferior than their male counterparts. In The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline, Catalyst found that among high-potential graduates from elite MBA programs—those graduates companies count on [...]
The theme for my coaching this week was: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Yet you might not know you chose a path of greatness over enjoyment until you are in pain or numbed out by meaningless stress.
The topic first emerged when I woke up Tuesday with excruciating back pain. After reviewing my [...]
