Do you leave your front door open, allowing anyone who chooses to walk in and command your attention? I highly doubt it. And yet this is exactly how our email inboxes function. Your email is the front door for access to your work identity. And anyone who has access to...

Most of us love to make to-do lists, and yet we very rarely cross everything off. This happens because it's easy to overlook context. By context I mean things like: clarifying what you want to accomplish in the grand scheme of things, understanding how to coordinate...

Mentors are like careers. We still want them—yearn for them in fact—but they don’t exist anymore. I probably spend at least 20-30% of my time talking to other humans about their careers. What people are working on, what their struggles are, what they hope to do next,...

When it comes to distraction in the workplace, email overload is public enemy #1. A new study of 1,000 knowledge workers found that employees spent an average of 4 hours a day processing their email. The state of our inbox addiction is so bad, in fact, that the...

I’ve been trying to pinpoint the feeling that’s overtaken me since Hillary Clinton’s loss in November, and the closest I can come is: Bereft. The feeling of being deprived or robbed; lacking something needed, wanted, expected. Women across the country thought we were...

Most people equate being busy with being productive. As long as we’re “getting things done,” we feel like we’re headed in the right direction. We think that doing something must be more productive than not doing anything. That action is more powerful than reflection....

People are obsessed with morning routines. What was Ben Franklin thinking about when he started his day at 5am? How does Stephen King get into the rhythm for writing? What question did Steve Jobs look in the mirror and ask himself every morning? (Apparently, it was:...