I believe that balance can be found as long as your lens is wide enough, your time scale is long enough, and your perspective is broad enough.

You might feel like you are looking to others to provide an example for you, but know that there is always someone else who is looking at you.

Don’t be “shell-fish”... delegate. Okay, maybe that’s not the exact phrase, but as I sit here at beach with the children enjoying the end of summer, I’m feeling a little playful.

This was a question posed to me by Kelli Risse as we were recording in upcoming episode of her podcast “Winning in Business”.

It’s the start of school here in Atlanta, and that means the usual anxiety that comes with change and growth are just around the corner.

Have you ever lied about why you were not able to make a meeting at work? Did you not want to tell your boss or coworkers that you had something personal to take care of?

“Feedback is a gift.” This was engrained in me early in my professional career as a part of a Fortune 100 company who followed the strategies outlined in “The Oz Principle."

The ability to do focused work, the kind of work that requires deep thought and uninterrupted concentration, remotely is one of the things that divided us during the pandemic.

It’s important to use the right tool for the right job. I bet you can hang drywall using a stapler if you had to, but wouldn’t it be better to also have a saw, a hammer, and a screwdriver available to use?

I know many of you are tired of video meetings but is it because of the “on camera” stress (also referred to as zoom fatigue) or is it that the camera is an unwanted accountability partner? 

The new year is a time filled with possibilities, but to many employees this time of year can be overwhelming. At the end of the year, we can point to what needs to be finished, what can be wrapped up nicely and what we are just going to have to abandon, but at the beginning of the year, hopes, dreams, and previously set commitments abound.

Don’t take yourself too seriously over the few weeks. The end of the year can be extra stressful for deadline driven & goal oriented people.

“Are you running from a job or to one?” This is the question I posed to a women I mentor recently. This is a question I pose to everyone who seeks my advise about a job change.

As a salaried employee, I am paid to get a job done, so that’s what I do. This is not so say that vacation is not important - finding time to recharge is critical to maintain high levels of productivity and to avoid burnout.

This is the advice I gave my son at his swim meet when he was asked at the last minute to fill in for a teammate who could not compete. The only problem was that he knew he was not going to do very well in the event.

Last week, I was re-counting the story to a friend about the year that I gave up “no” for Lent and she suggested that I share it more broadly, so here it goes...Not knowing what to give up for Lent one year, I decided that I would give up the word “no” at work and see what happened.

Businesses are designed to take as much as you will give them, and then to ask for more. It is up to you to set and then manage those boundaries.

I know you may think I’m crazy, but as a leader, I love that, once a year (twice if you are lucky enough to work for an organization that does mid-year reviews as well) I am given the explicit permission to not talk about the business at hand, but instead to set aside time to talk about my teammate.