traveling while american

Traveling While American

I haven’t always been blonde, but I’ve always looked American. The only time people speak a foreign language to me is in Chicago. They think I speak Polish or Ukrainian. I remember traveling for work during the Bush administration. Before there was ISIS, there were fake weapons of mass destruction and Abu Ghraib. And, all…

entrepreneurial advice

Entrepreneurial Advice

I’m lucky to have smart people around me who offer advice on everything. This expertise comes in handy because I’m working on GlitchPath and looking to avoid the same mistakes that other entrepreneurs make when they launch a start-up. Recently, a friend of mind gave me some awesome advice. “Ask for money, you get advice.…

SHRM CEO

The SHRM CEO is Retiring

The CEO of SHRM is retiring. What’s SHRM? It’s the AARP of HR professionals. They are an association that does commercials on CNN and tell everybody about how great it is to work in HR. And, like the people AARP who want us to believe that being an old lady is empowering, they are lying…

mushroom coffee

Braggy CHROs

It’s great that CHROs around the world are patting themselves on the back for embracing the cloud, understanding business, and focusing on culture. But whenever I hear about systemic sexual harassment or widespread pay inequality, I want to raise my hand and say, “HR fails workers and shareholders every day.” I also want to say,…

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Business Travel & Sleep

I can’t sleep on the road, which sucks because my job requires a significant amount of time away from my home. I toss and turn for a good part of the night, waking up to worry about whether or not I’ve missed the alarm. Even when I’m not worried, I can’t get comfortable and fall…