I have a birthday this week and knowing that I’ve completed another trip around the sun always makes me… conflicted. On the one hand, growing old is a privilege; I understand that and believe it with all my heart. Plus, you get cake on your birthday. But as you reach your 60s, your perspective on…

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08.05.2025

Acceptance is Your Leadership Superpower – Your Work, Your Way

American-Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross first wrote about the five stages of grief in the 1960s. They were designed to help people cope with loss by giving them a checklist of human reactions to terrible things. First shock and disbelief (this can’t be happening to me), then anger (I don’t deserve this), then bargaining (if I…

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14.05.2025

Walk Me Through Your Resume – Your Work, Your Way

A resume is one of the classic tools for career transition. On its own, though, it’s simply a piece of paper that takes a backward look at your career and your education. It doesn’t really predict how well you’ll do on a new team in a new role. Doing that is your job, and savvy…

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29.05.2025

The Case for Ambition – Your Work, Your Way

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D., writing for Psychology Today, says that somewhere along the way, ambition turned from a virtue to a vice. “Once a cornerstone of the American ethos—synonymous with self-reliance, upward mobility, and personal agency—ambition is now more often associated with selfishness, power-hunger, or hollow striving. We’re suspicious of those who want too much, push…

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On becoming a Former Wunderkind – Your Work, Your Way

Acceptance is Your Leadership Superpower – Your Work, Your Way

Walk Me Through Your Resume – Your Work, Your Way

The Case for Ambition – Your Work, Your Way

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