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Guiding Paths: Empowering Leadership and Career Insights


Seeking Serenity
Cultivating a Key Value for Growth Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely Ralph Waldo Emerson The Beginning Before I...
Aug 9, 20244 min read


Staying Positive in the Negativity
Every day, I awaken to my playful pup gently performing her self-appointed alarm clock duties. As I scratch behind her ears and smile at...
Jul 15, 20242 min read


Discovering Something New in the Everyday
The Revelation It's been several years since my refrigerator was new. I had carefully researched my options before making the purchase...
Jun 25, 20243 min read


Successfully Managing Professional Transitions
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”– Charles Darwin Change. We...
Jun 17, 20243 min read


Coaching Commitments
The VantageShift Way People often ask me about the commitment required for coaching. In coaching, commitment is a two-way street. There's...
May 18, 20243 min read


Reader Sharing on the Topic of Women in Tech
One of the most popular posts on VantageShift Insights is Bias Against Women - How You Can Help. I was motivated to research and write...
Apr 8, 20244 min read


The Rewards of Patience
The Tentative Start When our Rottie first came to live with us, she was quite apprehensive about residing in suburbia. We don’t know much...
Mar 18, 20245 min read


The Power of Looking Up
I've long noted that most people do not look up. Their attention is focused down or forward with an occasional backwards look. They are...
Feb 20, 20242 min read


The Cost of Doing Nothing
For most of us, decisions involving money are based on affordability and short-term value. If we're hungry, for example, we think about...
Feb 8, 20242 min read


Dive into Your Life
If you've spent considerable time and energy on must do's, hunkered down in your little boat of obligations, it's time to take a plunge...
Feb 2, 20243 min read


Why I'm Inspired by My Dog
As regular readers of my articles on Medium know, I am the proud dog parent of an adorable Rottie. She's a loving companion, intelligent...
Jan 22, 20243 min read


Is This Your Year?
I get a kick out of being born in a Year of the Dragon. It's an auspicious sign of the Chinese zodiac. Those born in the Year of the...
Jan 15, 20242 min read


Gratitude
Giving thanks for all the wonderful things we have in our lives The United States observed the Thanksgiving holiday last week and my day...
Nov 28, 20232 min read


Recognition
I was recently honored to be the subject of an article by Fuzia as a Thoughtleader in their Humans of Fuzia feature. When I was first...
Nov 18, 20232 min read


Bias Against Women - How You Can Help
"I don't get a good vibe off of her." I was talking with a man who normally reaches conclusions about people based on their individual...
Nov 3, 20235 min read


It's Not What You Do
It's the Way That You Do It I was listening to some perfect-for-Sunday-morning jazz vocals and heard "Tain't What You Do (It's the Way...
Oct 15, 20232 min read


Are You Efficient or Effective?
Striving for Both I heard a fitness expert talk about how we can become efficient at certain movements even when the movements are not...
Oct 3, 20232 min read


Lessons in Leadership from a Rottie: Implicit Bias
Excerpt from an article published by VantageShift's CEO on Medium. Read the whole article here. “Dog racism is real.” I was at a beginner...
Sep 13, 20235 min read


Lessons in Leadership from a Rottie - EQ
Excerpt from an article published by VantageShift's CEO on Medium. Read the whole article here. As I wrote in the initial chapter of...
Sep 11, 20233 min read


Social Skills at Work
Not Just a New Grad Issue I read an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, "New Grads Have No Idea How to Behave in the Office" and...
Aug 26, 20232 min read

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