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Read MoreForté SignalsIf It Can Happen to Grace Hopper…
On October 13, two weeks before it was set to take place, AnitaB.org announced that the 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration was canceled. My immediate reaction: What the heck is happening in our world? And I’m guessing I wasn’t the only one. Grace Hopper isn’t a small conference that couldn’t find its audience. It’s well-known as one of […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsThe Expectations You Didn’t Know You Had
My sister was going through old emails this week and sent me something I wrote in 2013. I had absolutely no memory of it. Apparently, I used to write a blog for my colleagues when I worked at GMAC. Once she sent it to me, I started to vaguely remember writing some of them. […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsWhen Are You Supposed to Be Bad at Something?
During a recent Forté Partner Advisory Council conversation about early career talent, someone said something that has been living rent-free in my head for the last week. When talking about the pressures facing today’s college graduates in the job market, someone said, it can really feel as though failure isn’t an option. It made me […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsNice Hat. Hope It Doesn’t Become a Tattoo.
My colleague Katie Stanfield recently wrote about a well-known decision-making framework that asks you to categorize a decision before you make it: Is it a hat, a haircut or a tattoo? A hat is easy to reverse. Don’t like it? Take it off. A haircut takes longer to undo, but eventually it grows out. A […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsThe Hidden Rules of Work Might Not Be Rules After All
You figure out pretty early in your career that work has a whole set of rules nobody actually explains to you. Nobody tells you exactly how much you can push back before you’re labeled “difficult.” Or when you’re being asked for an honest opinion as in what do you really think? versus an “honest” opinion […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsReviews of Someone Else’s Future
There should be a Yelp for career decisions. There isn’t. Five stars: Took the promotion. Would absolutely do again. Four stars: Changed industries. Rocky start, solid outcome. One star: “Follow your passion.” Passion did not cover rent. No such site exists, so we piece one together ourselves. Rankings. Reddit threads. LinkedIn posts. Salary reports. Alumni […]
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