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This morning as I get ready to go to a Mother’s Day brunch with a friend who, also, did not have children, I’m thinking about a conversation at a bed and breakfast on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle a [...]

The last couple of weeks, the topic of the value and risk of certifying professional practices and knowledge has been haunting me.  Perhaps this is because this coming Saturday I’m supposed to be [...]

At various points in my life, I have scented something in the wind around me and decided to follow my nose even when other people thought it was crazy to head toward what attracted me.  It works [...]

I’m sitting in a hotel room at the close of a conference where, for the last three days, the phrases “my team” and “your team” have come up repeatedly from speakers who are talking to roomsful of [...]

Personal Sovereignty One of the most common mistakes we make when we enter an organization as a worker is that we give up our autonomy, or as Polly Young-Eisendrath describes it, personal [...]