Why Hard Work Is Not Enough: What Women Should Know About Meritocratic Systems (and How to Beat Them)

As a working woman, the idea of meritocracy may have been introduced earlier on in life to you. From popular advice to widely accepted success principles, merit-based guidance may have followed you all throughout your education and career.  “Work hard. Be...

Are You Being Financially Discounted at Work? How to Recognize It, and Correct It

Have you ever walked out of a compensation conversation feeling like something didn’t quite add up?Not because you underperformed.Not because you lacked results.But because the offer felt… cautious. Conservative. Tempered.As if someone quietly adjusted the forecast on...

New Year, New Career? Why Women’s Careers Don’t Reset in January (and What to Do About It)

New year, new career? Or is it? The start of the year is supposed to feel like a career reset. New goals. New momentum. New clarity about where you’re headed professionally. And the hope that last year is behind you and this one will be better, or at least...

When the Holidays Meet Performance Reviews: How to Handle the Weight of the Season

It’s year-end again, and here we are steeped in year-end deadlines, holiday shopping, festivities planning, and…year-end performance review time at work. If you’ve ever wondered why year-end feels like an exhausting test on the home and work front, you are far from...

The Thanksgiving Tax: On the Real Cost of Women’s Holiday Labor

Every Thanksgiving and the ensuing holiday season, many, if not most, women step into an all-too familiar rhythm. It’s the rhythm of tireless planning, strategic coordinating, devoted caretaking, and organizing, smoothing, prepping, cooking, hosting, remembering, and...

Work It: Tie-Front Blouse

I'm a big fan of tie-front blouses! This Tahari ASL  houndstooth tie-front blouse just brought the sexy accountant out of me (hello Halloween)! Loving the cute houndstooth print and draped tie-front on this conservatively elegant blouse! It's $59 at Macy's! I'd pair...

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How To Be An Opportunist At Work (The Right Way)

Up until recently, I thought opportunism, especially in the workplace, was distasteful at best, and frankly offensive at its worst. Well, I got to think again, and after years in the corporate jungle, came to realize being an opportunist can actually be a good thing...

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Coffee Break: Would You Tell On a Co-Worker ?

I wrote earlier about women being able to work together without competing with each other. Oftentimes, and very much unfortunately, it's not the case, hence generating generous (and unproductive) amounts of unjustified betrayal and backstabbing in the workplace. And...

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Work It: Zip Coat

I have a fashion crush on this Via Spiga Faux Lather Trim Front Zip Coat from Nordstrom. I actually tried it on, and the fit is superb! Loving the sophisticated glam of the stand collar, along with the faux leather inserts on the shoulders and waist. Who needs a nip...

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Can Women Work Together Without Competing?

As women, two of the things we are often faulted with at work is being overly emotional, and competing against each other. While terms such as competitiveness and aggressiveness tend to be associated more with male characteristics, females have since the beginning of...

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Work It: A-Line Dress

This dress is the epitome of "functional simplicity". Loving the clean lines on this Karen Kane 3/4 sleeve, A-line dress! With a ballerina neckline and an always flattering A-line silhouette, this dress looks perfect any day at work or after-hours! The dress is $89 at...

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Is Your Lack of Faith Ruining Your Career?

I know, Faith is one of the F-words at work, and many believe it does not exactly belong in the workplace. Yet, for those who believe in the power of faith in the workplace, it appears faith can even increase our ROI at work. When we speak of faith at work, many...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Happy Sunday! Hope everyone is having a great week-end! The weather was gorgeous on this side of the blogosphere, there's just something about Fall in New England that leaves you breathless. Hopefully, you also are enjoying the stillness of the morning, as you're...

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