If you’re like most of us, you see people get promoted over your head that are less talented and less capable. This is particularly frustrating when you’re trying to make the tough leap from a management to a leadership position. What have the folks getting promoted over you learned that maybe you...
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Moving From Managing To Leading — Taking On The Big Picture
Moving from managing to leading is a challenge because the skills that make you a good manager aren’t enough to help you excel in leadership positions. Men and women alike sometimes perceive the gap between managing and leading to be a glass ceiling when, in many cases, it’s not necessarily that...
Do You Explain Your Success Away?
When I was a young attorney, I attended a real estate closing with a female real estate partner in my office. She had been practicing for years, had successfully navigated the pressure cooker of working in a large law firm, was on several prestigious boards, and had a cache of clients willing to...
Women And The 21st Century Art Of Leadership. It’s Not (Just) About Us
If you’ve been following The Woman Effect blog post series you might reasonably believe that I think that women are great leaders (I do!), and if we just put women in charge of the world all our problems would be solved (I don’t!). In fact, The Woman Effect isn’t just about the women at all; it’s...
Women & Risky Business – A Dynamite Combo?
Have you ever been in an airplane when it stalls? I was twelve when dad tipped us straight up into the solid blue expanse of sky - allowing gravity to grip our chests - and gunned our little single prop Cessna vertical. We chugged forward briefly until the lift over the wings dissipated, the...
Career Advancement Tip: Put Away the Pictures of Little Billy
Nancy and I bonded in the late '90's workaholic days of an internet startup when our kids were little. More than a decade has passed and she's VP of a growing company and I'm consulting and coaching, both of us busy as can be. We don't see each other enough now, and the reason I know that is that...
5 Things You Can Do to Advance Your Career – Right Now
I’ve written a lot about how we’re leaving plentiful resources untapped by failing to adjust our business culture to invite more women into leadership roles and how we need to transform The System to take advantage of our talents. In recognition of the fact that a company with women in roughly 30%...