Are you a YES-aholic? Here’s your 12-step cure

Every time you say yes, you give away a piece of yourself.  It’s a commitment of time, energy, brainpower and bandwidth. If you are operating at full capacity, there is little margin for error.  When you experience a spike in demand, … Continue reading

To Design your Future Life….Flash Forward then Fill in the Blanks

I’ve written a guest blogpost for PrimeWomen a new, on-line magazine where you will find a storehouse of strategic content for those seeking new horizons and career transition. Your future life may span many more years than you think.  Best … Continue reading

Behind the Badge: A Cup of Coffee with a Poetess Cop

The female cop has held a media mystique from the days of pioneering glamazon Angie Dickenson’s Police Woman to The Killing’s austere Sarah Linder and cop-next-door Ellie Miller in Broadchurch.  Such danger and heartache! What inspires that career path in real … Continue reading

To Reach Your Goal: Flash Forward, then Fill in the Blanks

This is for the students in your family.  But the principles apply for anyone with a dream. The key is to flash forward — look at what it will take to win — then fill in the blanks with the … Continue reading

The Networker

Growing up, our families imprint us with traits, values and habits. Some we strive to emulate. Some we struggle to avoid. Others slip unnoticed into our daily patterns. The DNA continues into adulthood. In ten years of executive search, it … Continue reading

Betty Draper vs. Sheryl Sandberg: We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

In the TV show Mad Men, Betty Draper epitomized the ideal of American womanhood in the go-go era of the 1960s.  She was Grace Kelly gorgeous and Bryn Mawr-educated with a drop dead handsome husband who was minting money as a … Continue reading

Are you a YES-aholic? Here is your 12-step cure.

  Every time you say yes, you give away a piece of yourself.  It’s a commitment of time, energy, brainpower and bandwidth. If you are operating at full capacity, there is little margin for error.  When you experience a spike in … Continue reading

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