As a 16-year-old mother dropping out of ninth grade in Seattle, Anne Peterson would have said where she is now, 34 years later, would be highly unlikely.
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Yoda is not real.
No one person will magically be your mentor who will show you the path to success for your entire professional life.
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Can’t touch this.
The recent uproar surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential hopeful whose spokesperson Bill Russo rebuked allegations about “supposedly crossing a line between affectionate or supportive behavior with women to something inappropriate,” calls to the forefront the need to make those lines very clear.
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It’s both good and bad news. Women still have a ways to go before they reach equal pay for equal work, but this year shows a small improvement of 1 percent over last year. Equal Pay Day on April 2 marks
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You know those “snowplow parents” — the ones who clear away impediments that might hamper their children’s success? They’re getting their comeuppance in the wake of the recently discovered college entrance cheating scheme that has snared celebrities like Felicity Hoffman and Lori Loughlin and revealed the corrupt ways parents of means can push aside those inconvenient test scores or other qualifications to get their kids into college.
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If you believed Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex and The City,” it was all about the Manolo Blahniks. They were the key to her appeal, her power, her femininity.
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If you are on the road again and want to eliminate the inevitable minor hassles of business travel (that can accumulate trip by trip by the way), we have five key suggestions that can assist business travelers from accumulating too much high anxiety.
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Most everyone would see prison time as a big deterrent to hatching a fraudulent business. But on the other hand, someone may see $9 billion in valuation as a big incentive to keep the lies inflating.
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Every workplace, organization and professional culture has stressful points. We are all under extreme pressure at some point to deliver outcomes, meet deadlines and stretch ourselves—regardless of what career tier we are on.
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The recent news of the university admissions scandal perhaps has many amazed how some students with a career already laid out can skip classes for a trip to Fiji. But for the rest of us, helping out a relative—whether that is a son, daughter or cousin—with an internship, recommendation or entry level position is a family requirement.
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Funny you would think humor is gender blind in the workplace, because it’s not.
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