Is 2019 a turning point for women executives?

On International Women's Day today I find myself asking could it be that the momentum is finally building to escape velocity? Escape from a world where the majority of corporate power is held by white men? It feels like it. The new California legislation requiring the boards of companies who have their headquarters in California to have women on their boards may or may not be constitutional but for the first time it is absolutely forcing the conversation. I've been raising this issue for many years now and for the [...]

By |2019-03-08T15:50:39-08:00March 8, 2019|Equality|Comments Off on Is 2019 a turning point for women executives?

There’s no dishonor in being fired (most of the time)

So you "get fired" - what does that really mean? And should you feel bad, or is it an opportunity to review where you really belong. Let's start with the word. Fired. The web has a variety of etymologies for the word fired being applied to losing ones job but the version I grew up with is that when a craftsman was very bad at his job (say... working on a Medieval cathedral) and he was kicked off the crew his tools would be thrown into the fire (so he [...]

By |2019-01-04T09:59:44-08:00September 7, 2018|Career Advice|Comments Off on There’s no dishonor in being fired (most of the time)
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