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Making Choices Matter

Posted on August 10, 2019 | 4 comments

Choice is such a whopper of a topic. Isn’t it? How would you describe your relationship with choice? Do you err on the side of safety or throw caution to the wind? I’ve been thinking a lot about choices this summer thanks to a chance conversation. It happened when I was talking with an adult daughter of a friend at a lawn party earlier in June. She was excited about an upcoming move to LA and the start of a new job at a large law firm there. She had been in the public defender’s office in Dallas for a few years and was ready for a change. I was so curious about her decision.  That’s when she said something powerful about choice that sent me reeling…. Continue reading →

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Wonder and Grace

Posted on November 3, 2015 | 3 comments

“Are you ready for your big day?” asked my husband this morning.  It was 7 am. Chaos was percolating in every corner of our house.  One child was rejecting some admittedly overdone toast as a ploy to escape a final review of test material.  Someone else was searching frantically for a misplaced item.  “Time to go?”  “Where’s my lunch?”  “Who is picking me up after school?”  My big day?   Continue reading →

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Transition’s Enabler….

Posted on January 19, 2014 | Leave a comment

As you look forward into the New Year have you been considering transition?  Maybe you’re rebounding from a 2013 job loss but you’re questioning if you want to get back into the same thing.  Maybe you’re someone who has prioritized other’s needs over your own and now find yourself ready to re-prioritize.  Maybe you are realizing that you need to regroup because your long sought after career choice isn’t all that you thought it might be.   Whatever the drivers transition simply represents a point in time when we’re faced with a decision: to change or to transition.   Which path will you choose?

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Risk and Failure

Posted on March 22, 2012 | 7 comments

“I finally got around to reading your interest card,” said Andrall Pearson former President and COO of Pepsi Co. and my professor during a second year course at the Harvard Business School.  His quip came as he leaned on my desk with hushed tones moments before class started.   The card, an arcane pre-Internet system – think index card – held a few sentences authored by students to convey our interests to professors.    On my card I’d divulged my dream of running an emerging business.  That day the class was scheduled to discuss a 1980’s-style emerging business, Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT).   OAT was founded in 1978 by a high school anthropology teacher in her three-story house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   My little visit from Andrall was my heads up, referred to as a soft-call, that I would be leading the class’ discussion that day.  I had about a minute and one-half to prepare. Continue reading →

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