Mastering the S-Curve of High-Powered Careers 5 Ideas for Keeping Your Composure
Keeping your composure when you feel safe is easy. The question is how to regain and retain it when you are no longer in your comfort zone, when you feel out of your element. Add pressure to any situation (speed it up, raise the stakes, increase the competition) and at some point, performance drops. Most [...]
Winning, Losing and the Case for Composure
Sports tournaments make for some interesting lessons on leadership and performance, and these apply equally to business and life overall. Last week, I had the chance to observe first hand the dynamics of winning and losing at the Women’s U18 European Championship Basketball tournament in Romania. Whereas the early rounds of competition were about separating [...]
Life Lesson from Top Chef
I was watching Top Chef just to “hang out” with my daughter (she’s 13, so you grab those opportunities when you can), and it turned out to be an unexpectedly great learning experience. What’s more, it was my daughter who pointed out this particular life lesson. This was the season finale episode, and it was [...]
The Tricky Business of Managing to Stay on Top
I am fascinated by the unravelling of General Stanley McChrystal. Not having met the man personally, I have only the media reports to go by. Based on this, three lessons occurred me, all of which apply to business leaders and managers. It can turn on a dime General McChrystal went from being heralded as a [...]
Are you still waiting for someone to choose you?
Why wait around? Sandra Bullock sets a great example, forming a company to pursue her own movie projects rather than waiting for others to offer her scripts. Why couldn’t we do the equivalent in our lives?
What is better, a one or two page CV/resume?
Here is my input into a recent LinkedIn discussion on this topic. For the full discussion, go to: http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=1918425&discussionID=16027788&sik=1269425451079&trk=ug_qa_q&goback=.ana_1918425_1269425451079_3_1
Changing Careers?
If you are changing careers, these tips may be useful to consider…
How can they be sure?*
Highly educated young women are reportedly intending to opt out of the career achievement cycle. Is this next generation of women taking too much for granted, or are they wiser than we think?It was not that long ago that women finally won the right to vote in the US, and it was just within the [...]
