Reflecting on conversations, I’ve had with women this past year about ambition, both in traditional workplace, and in the small business space. Women trailblazers came before us, and now we are walking our own paths. We have to own those paths! There’s work that’s just for us to do. The next generation of trailblazing women is among us! Let's make sure they're seen, supported, and celebrated.

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...