What? No Internet on My Flight?

What? No Internet on My Flight?

If I’d known there would be no internet access on this 4+ hour flight, I might have come better prepared to work offline. I wouldn’t have come, as I did, eager for an extended stretch of uninterrupted work time (online). I have a constant battle with my email inbox,...
Go Farther, Together

Go Farther, Together

My team is supporting Eric Lowitt this week in his launch of The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage. If we want to make a measurable difference through our actions, we must find ways to partner...
How to Find a Mentor

How to Find a Mentor

I received an email from a friend yesterday who talked about her desire for — and difficulty finding — a mentor. I don’t have any formal mentors in my life, ones I meet with regularly and have agreements and goals with, but I do have several people who build...
Chaos and Mentoring

Chaos and Mentoring

Sometimes we have to be willing to tell the truth, even when it’s difficult. For that reason, I am grateful to two valued friends (team members) who recently told me that our business tends towards chaos. In doing that, they each became mentors to me in those...
The Mentoring Sandwich

The Mentoring Sandwich

In the same way that middle-aged adults are often in the sandwich generation, balancing parenting growing families with caring for aging parents, I lately feel like I am smack dab in the middle of a mentoring sandwich. I am mentoring others (sometimes more...
You Are Not a Failure

You Are Not a Failure

You are not a failure. Those voices in your head are vicious — I know, because I have battled them myself. The whispers of self-doubt, the feelings of not measuring up, the belief that you can never do enough. They’re lies. The truth is this: you are enough....