If it’s good enough for Mika Brezinski and Joe Scarborough, is it good enough for you? The co-hosts of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC are officially engaged, apparently proving that office romances can work out to everyone’s advantage.
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Author and activist Rebecca Sive has been around a political campaign or two. The daughter of a New York lawyer who ran for Congress in 1958, Sive says her parents taught her that “politics is the highest form of contributing to the public good.”
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For me, joining the Take The Lead team as the Leadership Ambassador Program Director is a little like coming home. I first met Gloria Feldt in the mid-90’s when I worked as the marketing communications director at Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties in Southern California and she was the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Though Gloria wouldn’t recall meeting me, I’ve held on to her messages from that time for more than 20 years.
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It’s OK to eventually quit your day job and go for your dream job. At least that’s what happens in the movies.
In her acceptance speech for best actress at the Golden Globes recently, actress Emma Stone saluted everyone who ever faced rejections and challenges chasing a dream as a career path.
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In order for women to achieve gender parity in leadership, the issues of fairness for all employees need attention. The concerns of inclusion and non-discrimination of LGBTQ co-workers are everyone’s concerns. The good news is more U.S. employers are successfully addressing the topic.
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Sure, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again. We have all the sports clichés and the war metaphors to bandy about, plus a closet-full of trite sayings about winners and losers and how losing makes you stronger.
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We all intend to love our jobs, embrace our workplace culture and work happily ever after. Many of us are just seeking fairness at work.
But what do you do if you find yourself in a workplace that does you wrong?
You make it right.
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Almost a decade ago, I bought several copies of Robert Sutton’s The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. I gave it to colleagues and coworkers as gifts. It was a gesture of survival. We all desperately needed strategies to manage a difficult work environment with someone who fit the title’s description.
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We are constantly reminded in this culture that if we see something, say something.
It is a mantra we apply to public safety in the age of terrorism. It is also part of our workplace ethos. You are reminded to report what you know is wrong– whether it is actions of a boss, colleague, top administration or management.
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Melinda Gates is on it. And that is a good thing.
As the philanthropic billionaire and co-founder of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates can also add to her influence and investments the efforts of many other entreprenuers, organizations, business leaders, schools and foundations nationally and globally in the movement to keep women leaders in the STEM fields.
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Most of us do not enter into a personal relationship planning for the breakup. Chances are in the professional sphere, most leaders on the hiring end do not sift through all the applications embarking on the Holy Grail search for a short-term employee. It’s costly to train and upload someone onto a team.
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Liar, liar, career in flames. No one wants to be called a liar. No one wants to intentionally deceive others. Well, most everybody doesn’t want to lie.
Chances are you know better than U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, who lost his endorsements and faces tougher legal consequences after admitting he fabricated the story he told police and the media. No, he was not robbed at gun point in Rio; he and his teammates were actually at fault.
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