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Mar 28, 2019 “Breakups Are Like Handguns….”: How to Exit a Difficult Situation It’s possible some of you were startled by today’s headline. Let me explain: “Breakups are like handguns” was the pithy analogy offered to me by my brother some years ago… Read More
Mar 20, 2019 Don’t Work in a Goat’s Stomach It’s spring again! With all the vim and verve that accompanies that idea, for many of us, this ends up looking a lot like spring cleaning. All of which brought… Read More
Mar 14, 2019 S.T.R.E.S.S.E.D. about Speaking in Public? Here are Tools to Calm You Down As is often the case, last week I had a client say, “I get so nervous about giving presentations—it affects me for weeks beforehand. The worst time, however, is right… Read More
Mar 7, 2019 Be a Thermostat and Not a Thermometer: How to Cope When Someone Goes a Little Craaazy… This past week, one of my clients had to have an uncomfortable conversation with a longtime friend who was interested in coming to work at her firm. Although my client… Read More
Feb 28, 2019 “Don’t Weaponize My Shame” This week I was speaking with a client who was feeling like a failure. “Am I ever going to get this?” she asked me. “Maybe I don’t have what it… Read More
Feb 21, 2019 Ally or Observer? Make the Most of Your Next, Important Meeting Last week I had the opportunity to meet with a number of teams who were going in to pitch ideas for future funding. The team with the best idea (and… Read More
Feb 14, 2019 Please Don’t “Do” Anything Fair warning: this is going to be a pet peeve Wow: I have had it with people “doing” things. What does this mean? Well, as those of you who were… Read More
Feb 7, 2019 “Graveyards are Filled with the Bodies of Indispensable Men” The multiply attributed quote, “Graveyards are filled with the bodies of indispensable men” was brought home to me in a whole new way this past week. Never fear, nothing catastrophic… Read More
Jan 31, 2019 Sometimes There’s No Map—and That’s OK A few weeks ago, I received a super-interesting email via the “Ask a Question” button on my website. For the purposes of the author’s privacy, I am not going to… Read More
Jan 24, 2019 Man Overboard! How to Build Trust when a Situation Occurs As you know (probably far too well by now) Keith and I have spent the last few weeks having adventures in the Southern Hemisphere. Yesterday, we snorkeled the Great Barrier… Read More

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