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I recently found myself on the other side of coaching and want to share the experience with you. Yes, it involves a dragon boat: a long boat with 18 oarsmen. I agreed to be a dragon boat oarsman [...]

A friend of mine is teaching a finance class at the University of Iowa and he asked me to share my solopreneur story. As I contemplated my talk, I took time to consider which elements of my [...]

“We’ll, there’s another one out there now,” my friend quipped. We were meeting for coffee and, as so many of us do, she was killing time while our orders came up by scrolling through her emails [...]

Being accessible is important when you’re a manager with a team to lead. But what happens when your team takes advantage of that accessibility and interruptions threaten to sabotage your own [...]

You won’t find me in front of a TV very often, and when you do, one of the last things I’m probably watching is a reality TV series. But (surprise!) a couple of weeks ago I actually watched some [...]

As summer comes to a close and a new school year begins, I’m inspired to do a sort of personal reset. I like to take time to think about my personal and professional goals for the academic year [...]

Here are a couple of quick reads that provide a good value for a short time investment. Almost Everything, by Anne Lamott The inside flap of this book promises an exploration of ‘life’s essential [...]

Of all the potentially fabulous ways to spend a day in Las Vegas, most people wouldn’t pick sitting in a hotel conference room with a dozen strangers. But that’s exactly what I did last week when [...]

Today’s WW is more of an announcement than a dose of wisdom, but wisdom is exactly what I hope to gain during my upcoming training with Dr. Jason Selk, whose work on developing mental toughness [...]

An email with the subject line of “crickets” snagged my attention recently. The email was from a friend and it was about the way a company treated her after a series of job interviews. More than [...]