The Cassandra syndrome, the Columbia accident, and Corporate America
Can-do-no-matter-what attitude and selective deafness to bad news (or Cassandra Syndrome) can make you temporarily happy, but in the long run it won't keep you alive....
Theme of the day: Office Angst
Sometimes your day presents you with a theme that cannot be ignored and needs to be dealt with. Today for me it was office angst....
Caterina Fake on hard-working women
Yesterday Caterina Fake posted a commentary on Misbehaving.net about the effort women need to make to succeed in high-tech . I am sure high-tech executive women need to work really hard to get were they are. But I also see a lot of (really talented) women working twice as hard just...
If I just had been so thoughtful
Today I had lunch with Amber, a Business System Analyst who works as a contractor for my company. I met her at PhillyCHI, the local chapter of the ACM Computer-Human Interactions special interest group. She is such a smart wise young woman. I am in total awe of young people who are thoughtful and...
The myth of infinite flexibility
Fast Company has dedicated his latest issue to the importance of dealing with change in the workplace . Very timely topic, and useful tips, given my excruciating need for a job change right now. Thinking about this made me also reflect on the corporate myth of infinite flexibility of the workforce. Several...
Confessions of a berry picker
I’ve just discovered Jory Des Jardins’ blog, Pause. I love it. I spent hours this morning reading it, instead of eating breakfast (impressive: breakfast is my favorite meal by far and I was actually quite hungry). It seems that everything she talks about is fundamentally relevant to my life. She is gone through what...