Category: Leadership
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Baking and Leadership
Let’s start with the truth. When I was a freshman in college I had to call a friend to ask them how to boil water to make spaghetti. Truth! The only thing I ever had cooked in my life was scrambled eggs and that’s because scrambled eggs and popsicles constituted my senior year in high…
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Things I Know For Sure
There are a lot of things I don’t know. Maybe more than I do know. I will never claim to be an expert in many arenas. And I am okay with that. I know how to find answers, I know when I need someone with knowledge beyond my own to assist (at least most of…
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Being Weary
It seems that, for just about as long as I can remember, tired has been a constant state of being. Not just tired but exhausted. We give our all to work, to our families and we struggle with the uncertainties and anxieties that life seems to present us in a never-ending flow. From a virus…
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What Scares Me
Each year, as my birthday inevitably rolls around, I think about what the coming year will hold and, even more so, what I want it to hold. Will this be the year that I achieve a goal or make a change or focus my time differently? My answers vary year over year and my commitment…
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On Being Irrepressible
There are a lot of platitudes about life and especially about facing challenges in life. You can likely think of as many of them as I can, everything from the cloying sentiment of “when life gives you lemons” to the glib “That’s life.” I find those well worn phrases and cliches to be more than…
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Holding the Line
Have you ever had one of those times in your life when you felt backed into a corner? You know what you believe is right and yet the pressure to change your mind, to change your decision is relentless. It happens in professional life and it happens in personal life. And it is difficult sometimes…
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Defining Difference
I had the privilege of sitting on a panel discussion this week with a group of outstanding women leaders from around the country. We were talking about a variety of topics all focused on careers and career growth. The moderator was giving us questions, directing some of them to specific people to kick off and…
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Not Your Mother
On more than one occasion I’ve thought, and even said aloud, that if I were to write a book on management, I would call it “I Am Not Your Mother” and subhead it with “And other truths that managers should know.” It’s a bit of a flippant phrase, I know, but it encapsulates a reality…
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Rising Above
When I approach leadership, and life, with a full heart, I approach it with a commitment to bringing my whole self to every interaction and every situation. This is my authentic core that I am showing you and I am sharing with you who I am, what I believe and even, often, what I feel.…
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Authenticity
What is the role of a leader? Depending on your setting and your individual mindset, the answer could be to set direction, to motivate, to make change, to get things done. Regardless of what your definition of a leader, of your own leadership role, one thing is always true—you carry the responsibility. At the end…
With a Full Heart 