Leaning in: My 2 cents and 2 quibbles
Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, officially comes out today (Monday) but Amazon shipped over the weekend. So …Read More
Category Archives: Career
How to cope when life is crazy busy crazy
Regular blog readers know that, over the past few months, I’ve been having dozens of people log their time for me. Some of these are …Read More
Friday links: the work from home edition
I was on Baltimore's WBAL this morning talking about this week's major workplace conversation topic: working from home. Yahoo -- under the leadership of CEO Marissa …Read More
Perks and progress
Whenever I write about lists of great places to work, I make a reference to "free M&Ms." I always thought this was a great hypothetical …Read More
127 timesaving ideas for busy wives
That retro headline is taken from the cover of the May 1963 issue of Good Housekeeping. I recently took on an assignment to compare extant …Read More
What to expect when no one’s expecting
I got to know Jonathan Last because both of us (in separate years) won a Phillips Fellowship. This journalism fellowship -- which is aimed at …Read More
So you want to run a home-based business…
I’m speaking in a few months to a group of women who are in the early stages of starting home-based businesses. Having been self-employed for …Read More
Broaden your scope
One of the “most successful people” I interviewed for my next ebook, on how people spend their workdays, was former race car driver Sarah Fisher. …Read More
The moment of clarity
I keep thinking I should stop subscribing to the New Yorker. The magazines have a tendency to pile up when I'm busy because they come …Read More
Is 2013 the year to ask for a raise?
Over at LinkedIn, Citi's Women & Co Connect discussion group recently faced a question: what's your career resolution for 2013? Of the 5 available options, …Read More
