Career
The Skills That Make You Valuable at Work
Ask most people what makes someone valuable at work and you will get an answer about competence. She is good at her job. She knows the technical material....
Evelyn Lawson
Published stories
Stories by Evelyn Lawson
Career
Leadership
The Difference Between Being Needed and Being a Good Leader
There is a sensation that arrives when your phone rings and it is the third person this week who cannot proceed without you, and the sensation is not entir...
Leadership
How to Lead Someone You Don't Like
Sooner or later you will manage someone whose company you do not enjoy. Not someone who performs badly, which is a separate problem with a separate solutio...
Leadership
The Quiet Power of Being the Woman Who Makes the Introduction
Every professional field has one, and if you have been working long enough you can name her. She is not necessarily the most senior person in her industry....
Essays
The Particular Loneliness of Being Admired
There is a woman in my life who has been admired for as long as I have known her, and I have watched the admiration do something to her over the years that...
Essays
What We Lost When We Started Calling It Self-Care
The phrase self-care entered the cultural bloodstream in the 1970s through the writing of Black feminist activists who used it to describe something specif...
Leadership
The Loneliness of Leading Other Women
There is a story we tell about women supporting women, and then there is the experience of being a woman in charge of other women, and the two have less in...
Leadership
What Women Leaders Are Quietly Carrying Every Day
There is a particular kind of woman who walks into the office looking entirely put together. Her calendar is full. Her team relies on her. Her clients trus...