This well meaning question will get you a fake answer 99.9% of the time. Now more than ever we’re all craving connection and yet a question like this makes it so easy to keep a wall up and the other person at an arm's length. It perpetuates fake connection and reinforces a sense of isolation.
How Women Rise was recommended to me by two different women within weeks. After doing a little research about the book I could hardly wait for it to arrive in the mail. Could this be the holy grail to recommend to women to help us get out of our own way in our careers? Sadly, this book was a bust. In fact, I would go as far as to say this book could do more harm than good.
How Women Rise was recommended to me by two different women within weeks. After doing a little research about the book I could hardly wait for it to arrive in the mail. Could this be the holy grail to recommend to women to help us get out of our own way in our careers? Sadly, this book was a bust. In fact, I would go as far as to say this book could do more harm than good.
At some point the concept of a career gap became a taboo thing. When you are thinking about leaving our job or making a change you hear “the best time to get a new job is when you already have one”. What if you stopped subscribing to these beliefs? What if instead you planned an intentional gap every few years.