Jo McDermott

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  • Diversity Makes Work Work.

    Work Has Gotten More Diverse.  No Duh! Have you noticed how diverse our work lives have gotten lately?  Not so much at the top of organizations–we still have a long way to go there–but in terms of getting actual work… Continue reading

  • What If Your Leader Won’t Act?

    What if my leader won’t . . . I get this question all the time.  My leader won’t make a decision; what do I do?  Why won’t the leadership in my company LEAD?  Things go up the chain, but nothing… Continue reading

  • Are You A Wannabe?

    Are you an Executive wannabe?  An entrepreneur wannabe?  An artist wannabe? A marathoner wannabe? An author wannabe?  Do you put one of those on your New Year’s Resolutions list?  How about your career goals list? What Is Stopping You? Look… Continue reading

  • Not Your Mad Men Career Ladder

    Way back, before most of us were working, you got a job with a company and you stayed with that company–making steady progression–until you retired.  You were, of course, a man.  If you got fired, you had done something pretty… Continue reading

  • Manage Your Resistance

    Put Your Leader Hat On Who would you rather work with if you’re implementing a new change in your organization?  Would you rather work with someone who has been there for ten years–who knows his/her way around the organization, who… Continue reading

  • Create a Stakeholder Plan For Your Career

    I’ve been working a lot with Stakeholder Plans for large organization change lately, and I was thinking that it would be a good idea to create one for a career plan.  For those who haven’t had the pleasure of creating… Continue reading

  • Promoted! Now What?

    Congratulations!  You just got promoted.  Or you just got reorganized into a new department.  Or you just got a new boss.  How do you make this a step in the right direction and keep from crashing and burning.  Ok, crashing… Continue reading

  • Appreciate What You’ve Got

    This is all going to end. I know this doesn’t come as news to most of you, but everything we have is quite transient.  Possessions (think hurricane/fire/tornado), health, and even life itself.  There are two ways to approach this fact. … Continue reading

  • Get Your ‘Get Up and Go’

    I spent much of Sunday morning watching a few hundred people participate in their first triathlon.  It was sixty-something degrees and drizzling.  What would possess these people—all ages, shapes and sizes—to come out in the rain to inflict discomfort on… Continue reading

  • How to Increase Your Visibility in Your Organization

    Who Knows Who You Are? One of the most important things to realize as you work your way up the ladder at your organization is that other people are rarely as aware of you as you think.  You work hard. … Continue reading