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I had just landed my first major international assignment in Shanghai. The job was a promotion for me at one of the world’s largest and most prestigious PR firms. I was excited and nervous. [...]

Be honest. When you hear the words “political savvy” what do you think? Underhanded? Conniving? Backstabbing? Relentlessly ambitious? You’ve seen these people. They always are [...]

Here’s food for thought. How often do male CEOs get asked about work-life balance or their parenting responsibilities? How many male CEOs make national news for oversleeping and missing a [...]

  Every now and then, I run across an article that makes me question whether we are truly living in the year 2014. Susan Patton, who’s latest op-ed ran in the Wall Street Journal last [...]

It was a play date that started out pretty much like all play dates.  D2 and his pre-school classmate Meena were playing in the tee pee in his room. Meena’s mom and I were chilling out in [...]

Happy New Year! I’m back with lots of great content for you this year. I don’t normally make New Year’s resolutions. But in keeping with my philosophy of always being willing to help out my [...]

What would you do if you weren’t afraid? It’s the question that ultimately spurred Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg into writing her best selling book Lean In starting a national dialogue [...]

Has this happened to you? You study the agenda. You pour over the meeting materials in advance so you can ask thoughtful questions. But once at the meeting you sit quiet as a church mouse. You [...]

One of my favorite movies is the “Devil Wears Prada” about a young, up-and-coming journalist who spends a year as the executive assistant to a top fashion magazine editor. As Miranda [...]

“What I learned after years of scraping my way to the top, was there was no There There.” These were the words uttered to me by one of the most successful business women in Kansas [...]