A year ago while visiting my friend Ellen in Maine we were having a very long and thoughtful discussion while driving – one of many during our visit. We always say we should just hit the record button and turn our discussions into a podcast (which we’ve already named, “What will the neighbors think?” This…
“Who are you?” asked Bill Campbell, Intuit’s CEO at the time I was sitting in his office discussing business schools. I fumbled around for an answer, meandering all over the place, feeling not at all sure I had answered his question. Next he asked, “Who is Sonya Sigler?” Yeah, this question just confirmed that I…
Have you seen a colleague get promoted over you and wondered why? Or thought to yourself, ‘What are they doing that I’m not?’ The truth of the matter is that they know how to self-promote. I know, we’ve all been given messages that self-promotion is bad, or it feels icky and profoundly uncomfortable. That means…
Having a goal matters for your career path and for your continued success. I worked for a crazy man who made our entire legal department miserable – with his micromanaging, his ever-changing priorities, the shifting directions that felt like quick-sand, and his Friday afternoon crisis that would ‘require’ working over the weekend to handle.…