Hard work is an essential ingredient to achieving greatness and advancing your career. Moreover, attributes like persistence and grit can bring you closer to your professional—and personal—goals. But there comes a point when determination…
When you first encounter it, bad news may seem, well, bad. However, bad news is important to taking measured and deliberate action and making progress in your career and life.
But there are some right and wrong ways to give bad news, receive bad news, …
Change—it is the word that best describes the past year. For most companies, it’s been a year of continual disruption: remote work, furloughs and restructurings, rapid shifts in strategies, and more. For employees, the impact has been pro…
Every night after a long day of work, I put my two young children to bed and sit down at my kitchen table to tackle what feels like a third full-time job: pursuing a claim of pregnancy discrimination against my former employer. I spend hours writing re…
There are so many advantages to working remotely that finding a home-based job may be at the top of your to-do list this year. As you start your job search, you’ll find that many small companies are specifically looking for remote teams. But get…
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Last fall, I taught a new class called “#MeToo: A Cultural History” at Miami University. To my surprise, more than half of the 40 students in this humanities elective were business majors. Several had been inspired to take the class by th…
A friend of mine has a personal mantra for the pandemic: desperate times call for desperate pleasures.
In times of prolonged stress, we need to be even more diligent about carving out time and space for wellbeing, not as a matter of leisure, but …
Women have been getting paid less than men for as long as women have been doing paid work at all. And the fight for equal pay has been going on for just as long. So why does the pay gap persist?
It’s a complex issue, which is part of the reason …
