This morning I cut my husband's hair. Mind you, this was not my idea. I had not been telling him he needed a haircut. His job does not require him to show his face on Zoom calls. I can count the number of times he has ventured as far as the building lobby or the …
Month: July 2020
Tolerance
In the fall of 2016, I left a job I had held for over 30 years. There were a number of reasons, but a big one was the election. After Trump won, a lot of people were in shock. Someone told me that they had called HR to say that one of their employees had …
Picnics and Shopping for Priorities
What do you do when your team has a lot of ideas but can't seem to agree on a path forward? You need them to narrow in but the discussion and ideas continue to get wider and wider? How can you take things to the next step? I recently worked with a client who faced …
Finally!
When I was in 7th grade, I used to spend hours with a blow dryer and a curling iron trying to get my hair to do the perfect feathered curl that one of the popular girls at school achieved - seemingly effortlessly - every day. I'd wash my hair, condition it, blow it dry, and …
Dreaming of 2021
Like many people, I have had enough of 2020 and am counting on a change this fall that takes us in a new direction. Here are some things I would like that change to bring: National Leadership to Combat C19 As I think we can all see now, it's going to take a national strategy …