Meet Martha. She is a third year associate at a busy law firm. She is personable, enthusiastic, and a hard worker. She likes her job, is attentive to clients, values her colleagues, and wants to do well in her career. But here is what she...
Fall pulses with the heightened energy of important and urgent projects and initiatives. We stride into the fall with vigor: we have a crisp focus at work; we scan catalogs of self-improvement workshops; we resolve to reignite simmering social connections. We have a lot to...
Weaving my way through Penn Station recently, I was struck with the similarities between the ways people move through a crowd and the ways they move through a conversation. In the train station, everyone presumably has a goal, but the strategies for reaching them vary. There...
Everyone communicates. We communicate even when, maybe especially when, we aren’t thinking about it. The way we walk into a room; the way we sit in a meeting; perhaps even where we sit in the meeting all contribute to the message we’re sending. Before we...