When we look at women’s power in the workforce, whether running their own businesses or working as executives or on boards in the corporate world and academia, we can view the situation as negative or positive depending on our focus. Obviously, women are still underpaid and vastly underrepresented in positions of power, although this is […]
You Don’t Need Psychic Powers
I’ve talked before about why it’s a mistake to wait for the economy to recover before we transform our lives, work, and world. The future belongs to those who are starting those transformations now, who are shaping the world and creating their own place in it. If you can’t afford to make a huge leap […]
Positive Aging Does Not Mean Denial
Positive Aging is the latest meme for describing new approaches to life post-50, approaches that focus on changing the conversation about aging to encompass the reality that the years ahead of us hold more potential, not less—for meaningful work and business, making a difference, and living lives of significance, value, and visibility. I am wholeheartedly […]
Creativity after 40
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover. —Dorothy Fuldheim I’ve had many clients tell me they are just not creative people, thinking the term describes only artistic people, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. We all have creativity inside […]
Visionaries Have Wrinkles
This phrase caught my eye in my email inbox: “Meaningful Beauty.” It’s appealing, isn’t it? Who isn’t drawn by both beauty and meaning? The combination of the two was tantalizing, promising substance, a look at beauty that was beyond skin deep—which only made the actual content of the email all the more ironic. It was […]
The Retirement Age Myth
Whenever I read about retirement age, and how it has changed or is changing, all I can think of is “What difference does it make?” Why, in this day and age, do we even have a “retirement age”? Maybe in the past, a particular age could be associated with a time when people were physically […]
Thinking Outside the Test Tube
Trends in business and in science tend to follow a similar trajectory, and I’m not just talking about the research and discoveries that fuel innovations in what and how our businesses serve the world. Over time, in both broad fields, we’ve seen an increasing level of specialization. The more we learn about the world around […]
Does the Midlife Crisis Serve an Evolutionary Purpose?
What is a midlife crisis? The clichéd images are of a man in his 40s buying a red sports car and pursuing younger women, but a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls into question these clichés. An international team of researchers studied more than 500 captive apes around […]
Who Speaks for You?
I’ve been silent on much this week, like many others, at first from shock, then in grief, followed by time to process yet another unnecessary horror. Then the voices of Congress broke this silence in an unimaginable way, by voting against universal background checks for gun purchases. These voices didn’t speak for me. These voices […]
Showing Up
Having it all used to be the ultimate definition of success, especially after the women’s liberation movement of the 60s and 70s. We can have careers or our own businesses, raise our families, manage our households, join associations and clubs, volunteer, pursue hobbies, travel . . . But for many of us, this compulsive goal […]
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