August 17, 2012
A middle-manager client of mine was upset when her boss told her that he had hired a new team member. She had known he was looking for someone but had expected to be part of the interview process. “I have to work with this person, sit next to them in a cubicle, I should have […]
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June 15, 2012
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. Ask people about their worst career experience and you will hear many different stories. Some will feature bad bosses, toxic colleagues or greedy management. Others […]
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May 11, 2012
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. When one of my clients arrived at work one day, she noticed some of her colleagues were particularly well-dressed. At noon, she watched them all […]
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March 09, 2012
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. Four midlife women get together, and their talk quickly turns to what their twentysomething children are doing with their lives. One boasts that her daughter […]
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February 10, 2012
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. Same old assignments, petty office politics, squeezed budgets, irritating colleagues – at this time of year, it’s hard not to feel as dark about your […]
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January 14, 2012
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. There’s no question that Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple Inc., and Christopher Hitchens, the late author and pundit, each left indelible marks. But […]
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December 07, 2011
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. At a recent dinner, two friends who have hit midlife lamented they are now back to doing the same kind of work they did decades […]
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November 09, 2011
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. Early in my career, I worked in an extremely nasty environment. By the time I quit, my confidence was in such tatters that when my […]
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October 14, 2011
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. A man walks into a restaurant. During the minute it takes him to reach his table, he stops to talk to 10 people. A woman […]
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September 21, 2011
Globe & Mail Barbara Moses, Ph.D, is an international speaker, work/life expert, and best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth About Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. To listen to a 30-year-old man I recently counselled, you would think careers were kind of like dim sum – everything is on offer and […]
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Why a Blog: BARBARA MOSES After a great run, I recently decided to resign from my monthly Globe and Mail column. I had many reasons. In part, it was time to move on (more on this below). This was coupled with a growing dissatisfaction with how the column was being edited; changing content expectations; and word-count restrictions. This […]
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Dislike your co-worker? Get over it: A friend is dreading an upcoming performance review with one of her employees. She complains that although the staffer is a solid performer, everything about the woman makes her uncomfortable – the way the employee’s mouth twitches when she doesn’t know what she is talking about, her petulance when she doesn’t get what she wants, […]
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