Ladies, I beg of you, stop being too nice. (Not a political post, just a political setting.) At the end of the Democratic debate last night, Judy Woodruff asked the candidates if there was a candidate on the stage to whom they’d give a gift, or from whom they’d ask forgiveness. The men talked about … Read more
I dedicated my book, Limitless, to one of my mentors, Arnie Miller, who taught me to bring everything I am to everything I do. Why? Because it’s not just about not getting it wrong. We have to make sure we are getting it right. He was the toughest boss I’m so … Read more
This post was originally published on Facebook the day after the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013. Some of the facts (like additional undetonated bombs) turned out to prove false, and some (like me running in 2014) turned out to be true. The sentiment remains intact as ever. On the Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013: Hi … Read more
This past weekend I climbed Everest. But not really. I climbed Mt. Stratton 17 times to get to a total of 29,029 feet of accumulated elevation, the height of Mt. Everest. “What, LGO, that’s crazy! How did I not even know you were doing this? I’d think you’d be posting about training and preparation and … Read more
It’s not the falling down that shows you who you are; it’s the getting up. This morning I woke to a Facebook memory that six years ago I ran a PR in a half marathon. I’d taken up running, did too much too soon, and got all kinds of injured. It became a huge frustration … Read more
Are you “Crushing It!?!” (Read that question with an in-your-face, temple vein pulsing instafluencer rage, preferably standing in front of a rented jet and someone else’s car.) The largest looming threat to the prickly relationship between my advancing dotage and my tenuous hold on good health happens almost daily. It is the moment when some … Read more
When I was pregnant with my first son, I had a birth plan and I was not going to let it go. It was a beautiful birth plan. It was my beautiful birth plan. And, I was a fool. No, I wasn’t a fool for having a plan, for envisioning what would feel consonant to me, … Read more
I wrote a self-help book. About a month after my book, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life came out — debuting at #2 on the Washington Post Bestseller list right behind Michelle Obama’s Becoming — I had a crushing realization: I wrote a self-help book. I thought … Read more
In 2013, I read Lean In. I wanted to love it. I knew I was supposed to love it. But I didn’t. My issue with Lean In wasn’t the enormous amounts of privilege that Sheryl Sandberg used to achieve success. Hell, I did the same thing, albeit with a few less zeroes on my paycheck. … Read more
Employee engagement feels elusive… but all you need is to have the right conversations to find out what really drives your team. I speak for a living. And the biggest question I get when corporations want to bring me in to speak to their audiences is this: “When you get on stage and tell all … Read more