Have you ever felt like you paid a price for your ambition? A recent conversation with Dr. Frank Douglas for his Antifragility Reframe Podcast reminded me what what it felt like at a pivotal moment in my career when my ambition was getting me in trouble.  I was outgrowing a situation at work, and it felt like just by following my path, I was ruffling feathers. I was straddling an assigned teaching curriculum and a new Deputy Director role for a federal grant of nearly a million dollars. And...

Photo credit: Uday Mittal Have you ever felt like your manager holds too tightly to perfection and doesn’t cut themselves and/or others much slack? Or maybe you’re that manager. I know I’ve fallen into the hard-on-myself trap as a manager myself. Research shows that perfectionistic tendencies in managers can show up in a couple of different ways. There are the perfectionistic leaning managers who trust no one, the hard-on-others managers. They can fall into habits of: ·      Not delegating...

Many of us, especially if we’re in nonprofit, educational, or government roles, have never been encouraged to seek out career coaching. ...