Apps make appointment-setting easier. Take StyleSeat, for example. My last two stylists have used StyleSeat, which allows you to schedule hair appointments at any time of the night or day without having to say a word or interact with another human being. Unfortunately, although there may be an app for discontinuing your relationship with your […]
12 posts that rose to the top in 2019
You can write more than 1,000 blog posts spanning a decade and still be surprised at which posts perform well and which don’t. I’m sharing my top 12 posts of 2019 here, but two posts I wrote in earlier years, 10 Lessons from Lumosity and 6 Ways Our Marriage Resembles a Tree, still performed best. […]
Golden stories for a new year
Some months, I sit down to compile my post of my favorite SmartBrief stories from the prior month, and I’ve populated the draft post with stories already. (This is my preference, because it makes the final writing a bit easier. A story that merited me taking a moment in the middle of a workday to […]
Why I don’t call other women “Karen” (unless that’s their name)
People show disrespect for others in many ways. In 2019, discord among people has reached new lows. There were the horrific tragedies such as the 41 US mass killings in which 210 people died. Children are still being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border. To shift from the obvious and massive examples to […]
What are printer brownies?
I am a pretty literal thinker. Last holiday season, a colleague who works remote (vs. my organization’s brick-and-mortar office) and I were talking about the unique parts of being a remote worker. She said, “Even though I’m not in the office, when someone says there are brownies by the printer, I still look.” ME TOO! […]
What leaders can do
“… everyone is employed for the things they can do, no one is employed for the things they can’t do.” I read this quote in Leadership Lessons In The Age Of Technology by Sophia Matveeva, and I felt like a little beacon was shining out from the page, a little beacon generated by all the […]