Vulnerability we demonstrate when we allow others to know us more deeply brings both exposure and understanding.

Communicating up is a key part of managing up. However, it can feel like an extraneous task to write an email or put a deck together for work that is already done.

How to respond to an employee who wants a promotion involves integrative thinking, understanding their real need, and acknowledging their strengths.

We do business with those we know, like and trust.

Relationships matter, and breaking up with your employer can be challenging but if you tear out of there leaving chaos in your wake, it may come full circle years later when you arrive at a burned bridge.

Small town USA is defined by their humanity and other lessons I learned growing up in rural New York.

Radical empathy is the term I use to remind myself of the skill of employing empathy in the hardest circumstances. Empathy is about putting ourselves in someone else's shoes and imagining what it is like to be them within their circumstantial context. We may not naturally do this when that 'other' is on opposite sides of an issue from us.