Last night, I was watching a group of highly trained perfectionists compete on the world’s largest stage. The Olympics. Not a single loser there. Am I right? Brene’ Brown talked about going to the national TED conference one year and realizing each person she met had a story like, “yeah…

Nobody cares to see our data, to hear how much we know, until we do one thing first. Connect with Empathy. My friend Lu is one of those people you like the minute you say hello. I met her when she arrived on my doorstop after my husband and I…

Yesterday a friend asked me if I had read the Blog Post, Raptitude.com, called Go Deeper, Not Wider (raptitude.com). David, its creator, invited us to not buy anything new for a whole year, and instead use what we already have. Instead of that new book we just have to have…

MYSTE R We were headed to wine country this past weekend, my husband driving us to a cool new place to hear a friend play music. We took the back roads through Wilsonville and Aurora, to the Willamette Valley where the earth offers up some very fine Pinot grapes. It…

Lead Your Own Way: How women’s ways of leading change businesses As I woman, do you crave to “do” leadership in your own way? Most of us do not want to emulate a more masculine way of leadership. We want to do it on our own terms, in a different…

When Love (for resolutions) fades… You need some Goal Scaffolding Ever wonder where all those GREAT intentions go after say, about January 30th of every year? You get up on New Year’s day, or, maybe the next day after the holiday cheer has settled and you are deeply committed to…

Fruitcake is a metaphor for family. Right? If you think about it, fruitcake has a whole bunch of ingredients that would not normally go together. It’s a nearly edible dessert. Is it a dessert even? I don’t know. Whatever it is, it’s weird. And guess what? So is family. …

I was on my tenth Zoom meeting for the day. Ten hours? How did the work day transform into this kind of grind? It’s as if working from home means working all the time. I became nostalgic for a moment, thinking back on the days of the long commute to…

Leading Law Firms During This Fog- 3 Key Steps The Fog of War is a term used to describe the confusion caused by the chaos of war or battle where the intelligence gathered is always incomplete to a degree, thereby making any decisions concerning the war a bit… foggy. Law…