May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In this post, I discuss some of the implications of my father’s bipolar disorder on his career. I also contrast my father’s experience with my own.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
New Transitions Spark New Questions
Five Tips for Managing a Hybrid Team
With more than 40% of employees around the world interested in changing jobs this year, leaders need to go out of their way to ensure their remote team members feel included as they adjust to managing hybrid in-person and remote teams.
We offer five tips for organizations to help their remote workers feel valued and included.
Good-Hearted Good Business
What percentage of the global workforce do you think Microsoft’s Work Trend Index found is considering leaving their current employer this year?
A. 15%
B. 25%
C. 40%
If you answered C, you win! Your prize? Read the rest of this post to find out why and what employers can do about it.
Wrestling in the Mud
What do you want?
It seems like a simple enough question, yet it’s one that many of my clients genuinely struggle to answer. Many can name benefits that flow from what they want, like “happiness,” or “success,” or even, “success without sacrificing time with my family.” These are fantastic ideals, but can you name what you truly, deeply, unshakably want from the core of your being? For some, grappling with this question can feel like Jacob wrestling with the angel.
MLK, Actions and Allyship
While it’s true that Martin Luther King, Jr. stated that the white moderate of his time was “more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice,” with which I do not relate in the big, I can definitely see myself in his accusation at the level of the day-to-day. In a corporate setting, have you held your tongue as you’ve been the recipient or observer of a micro-aggression? I have, and I regret not having spoken up while it was happening.
Kintsugi for the Soul
At Breakthrough, our hope as we collectively prepare for the new year is that we apply the knowledge we’ve gained from the sudden recalibration of the reality of our daily lives in 2020 as a sort of Kintsugi for the soul for 2021 and beyond. Here’s to honoring our scars as we grow into our new, shimmering skins.
Thank You, Next Job
Depending on where you fall after your firm’s profits are distributed, you may decide to take part in the lateral migration that takes place every year in Biglaw after the books are closed and disbursements made. Before you put yourself on the market, however, you may want to consider some profile-raising basics to make yourself as attractive a candidate as possible.
I Vote for Love
With the United States so divided while in the throes of a pivotal election and being in the wake of a summer in which our country was grappling with its foundation deeply rooted in structural racism, the passage assigned for this past Sunday from the Revised Common Lectionary about the interwoven instructions to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves couldn’t be timelier.