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Continue reading →: Nail Salons: Modern-Day Sweat Shops?I don’t like salons, for hair or nails. For all the times you come out looking fabulous, it’s like a house of horrors while you’re in there. The waiting, the endless stupid conversations you can’t help but hear, forced to sit in uncomfortable chairs listening to rude customers treat workers…
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Continue reading →: Diversity at Google Off to a Good StartIt’s been more than a year since Google published its diversity statistics, starting a trend amid the big Silicon Valley tech companies and confirming what women and minorities already knew: The industry is mostly populated by white and Asian men. But, unlike some of the big name tech leaders, Google…
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Continue reading →: Freddie Gray, Almost Eclipsed by the Baltimore MomI knew as soon as I saw the article that it would go viral. Angry black woman: check. Fighting: check. Child abuse — of a sort: check. How could it lose? Sure enough, the media took the image of Toya Graham, a mother at the end of her tether, and…
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Continue reading →: Did You Really Just Call Your Co-star a Slut?OK, men throw the word slut around way too easily. It is unbelievably tiresome to hear that insult used for a joke, like it has no effect on the people who hear it. Society already puts an unreasonable amount of pressure on women to behave a certain way. This is…
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Continue reading →: Does Diversity Mean Improved Race Relations?The short answer is, no. Racism is not a location. It’s not about ease of proximity. It’s a system, and system’s are not as easy to change is it is to get along with a new, different kind of neighbor. Diversity is great, but unfortunately, it’s not a straight line…
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Continue reading →: Chill, People — It’s an Emoji, Not a White Hood @CloroxBefore you write in blasting me and Diversity Executive for insensitivity, I want you to know I chose that title deliberately. The point? Don’t overreact. Some things deserve your time and angst — Clorox’s April 9th tweet is not one of them. I saw the news when it came out,…
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Continue reading →: Work – and Dated Ideas About Work – Could Kill YouI spent most of the week in Miami at the Spring CLO Symposium, a biannual event my company throws for learning leaders. One of our keynote speakers was Brigid Schulte, author of “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time.” A seasoned journalist for the Washington Post, Schulte…
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Continue reading →: Learning, Leadership and Thought – Provocation – Three Days in MiamiThere’s nothing like being a winner. The thrill of victory, intimate knowledge of a job well done, and then there’s the recognition. Our 2015 LearningElite winners understand the feeling well, as Chief Learning Officer’s spring symposium is also when the LearningElite Gala takes place and all of this years’ 71…
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Continue reading →: The Learning was Fierce, the Weather was Fabulous, but All Good Things must Come to an End – Day 3 Recap
The last day of the Spring 2015 CLO Symposium was sunny and hot. Sadly, I couldn’t bring much sun back to the Windy City, but the lessons learned around the value of time and the need to maximize it via work life balance and short bursts of learning will stick…
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