Men to avoid: the ones who tell you to slow down
There is nothing more demotivating than someone above you in your chain of command telling you to slow down, to be less ambitious. Especially if you are a woman and the teller is a man. This behavior is, of course, not new. So many of our mansplaining experiences are captured in the new book Men to Avoid in Art and Life by Nicole Tersigni - I'm using one of her captioned paintings here to illustrate my message. A laugh-out-loud joy of a book and Twitter meme. I was coaching a [...]