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Read MoreForté SignalsFeedback, Part II: Why Not Me?
Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself at work wondering: Why not me? Maybe it was during a promotion cycle and someone else got the role you thought you were in line for. Maybe it was when you were certain you’d be sent to lead the project abroad, only to watch the opportunity go […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsWork Is Weirdly Unscored
Even at this point in my career, I often find myself wishing there were a dashboard for my career. Not a performance review. Not a five-point rating scale. An actual dashboard. Like the Canvas portal my daughter checked daily during undergrad. SUBJECT GRADE Respect from colleagues 87 Chances of receiving a meaningful raise this year […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsThe Myth Of The Career Ladder
A colleague of mine said something the other day that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. We were talking about career ladders, the metaphor, the model, the whole idea, and she paused and said: Why did we all assume the ladder went up? I mean, what are ladders for, other than to get […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsThe Graduation Speech I Wasn’t Asked to Give
This is the time of year when people who are famous, accomplished, or both get invited to stand in front of a room full of graduating students and say something memorable. Graduation speeches are supposed to be inspirational. They are meant to give you good advice. And they are supposed to send you out the […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsThe CFO Path Works. But the On-Ramps Are Closing.
In the last post, I introduced the difference between signs and signals. At the simplest level, signs are the observable inputs. Signals are what those inputs get interpreted to mean. From an individual perspective, that shows up in familiar ways: your resume, your experience, your credentials. These are the signs. What people believe those things […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsSigns vs. Signals: The Two‑Letter Difference That Explains a Lot About Work
For reasons that probably say something strange about me, I’ve been thinking about traffic signals a lot lately. Not because I’m secretly passionate about municipal infrastructure or have taken up a side hustle in urban planning. If anything, I’m the person who still gets irrationally annoyed when a left turn arrow takes too long. But […]
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