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: Collarless Seamed Jacket

Now this is what you call a statement jacket! This Tahari ASL Collarless seamed jacket in citron just adds the right amount of punch to any work ensemble. Loving the bright color and open front of this jacket, which is a great alternative to the sometimes boring sea...

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When Language is A Barrier to Success at Work…

In today's "global marketplace", we are bound to work with professionals who do not necessarily share the same language as us. From working with multi-national teams, to immersing ourselves into different cultures, breaking the language barrier at work can be tricky....

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Work It: Ruched-Side Dress

  This Catherine Malandrino ruched-side dress has flair! I particularly love the twist and draping effect on its right side, along with its tulip hem, both of which take this dress from ordinary to wow! The three-quarter sleeves are very season-appropriate and...

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How to Work With a Control Freak

We've all been there, at some point or another, working for or reporting to a control freak. These are the people who live to micro-manage us, or in other words drive us bonkers from repeating the same instructions in three different ways in the same sentence,...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Enjoy our posts? Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Pinterest! Happy Sunday! Hope everyone is enjoying the week-end... I'm gearing up for the annual Breast Cancer Walk in Providence this morning (shout out to my team "Save the Mamas"), and as I'm sipping on...

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Week-End Pick: Gotta Getaway Dress

I'm not sure if it's because I'm really in need of a week-end getaway, or because this dress is just amazing, but I'm loving this Gotta Getaway dress from Modcloth. Loving the boho chic look of this vintage-looking dress. The sleeve cutouts are especially flattering,...

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Is It Better to Be Feared or Liked at Work?

Niccolo Macchiavelli famously said "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."  Yet when it comes to business and leadership, is it better to be feared than loved? Or is respect much more important? Yet, isn't respect established based on a good and...

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There’s an App for That: TickTick App

I'm a productivity freak, and an app freak, which makes me a productivity app freak. Hence today's pick, the TickTick app. I have to say, the name "ticked" me to look into this to-do list app further, and I wasn't disappointed. The Brief: Tick Tick is a to-do app...

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