WTF Management Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay When your boss’s unhealthy actions are putting your team’s success in danger, you must address that behavior. WTF? I walked into my new office. I had taken a job as a Senior Director at a large aerospace company. The staff of eight business unit managers reported directly to …
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One and Done Image by Alina Kuptsova from Pixabay Ok, team. What are you trying to tell me with one clap? I suck? You didn’t like the article? Do I need to reconsider my chosen profession as a writer? Look. If you don’t like my writing, I understand. I admit I write about whatever strikes my fancy. …
Merciless Leadership Image by joseph_Berardi from Pixabay “When it’s time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.” — Jack Welch Being the leader of a hundred-million-dollar organization is no joke. Part of the leader’s job, especially when business is not going well, is to reduce expenses, to make cuts. Those cuts include reducing the size …
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay Growing up, I wrote all the time, however, per my mom and dad, I needed a profession that could financially support myself and my family, so I became an engineer and corporate manager. I worked in corporate American for years and years, writing memos, budgets, project reports and productivity documents. I …
Rebellious Love Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” — Sophia Loren To guarantee total control, my boyfriend needed power over the only other human I loved as much as him: my …
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Stupid Love Image by Digital_Works from Pixabay “Love didn’t hurt you. Someone who doesn’t know how to love hurt you and you confused the two.” — Tony Gaskins, Jr. In my mind, my choices were to live a boring life of poverty or run off with a much older man who promised an expensive lifestyle. I ran off with …
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Foolish Love Image by Goran Horvat from Pixabay I’m living proof that it does not matter how foolish you were when you were in love. No circumstance is escape-proof or permanent. Recovery is possible. At seventeen, I ran away with an older man. He was not who I thought he was. The person I fell in …
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Love Me Image by Pixabay “I need someone who sees the fire in my eyes and wants to play with it.” — lovethispic.com I have a set of techniques that kept my lover coming back to me. Providing physical pleasure, other than sex, kept me in his thoughts. Don’t get me wrong, scream and holler sex works …
An Ugly Truth Image by skeeze from Pixabay “Weight loss doesn’t begin in the gym with a dumbbell; it starts in your head with a decision.” Toni Sorenson I don’t want to make the changes needed to reach my goal weight. I need to lose more weight, but I don’t. I don’t. It’s only another 10 pounds. Let’s …
Audacious Leadership Image by Vitabello from Pixabay “The challenge of Leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind but not weak; be bold but not a bully; be thoughtful but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” Jim Rohn Being the boss is not a …
