04 Nov Who Decides If You Exceed Expectations? How Performance Review Calibration Works
Your rating is often decided in calibration, weeks before your review. Why exceeds expectations is capped, and what your manager needs from you....
Author: Danguole Litvinskaite
26 Oct Putting Off a Career Decision? Why a Tired Mind Avoids the Future
Exceptional & Exhausted #14 The COO in you keeps the to-do list running, while the CFO quietly decides there is no budget for your future. If you keep putting off a career decision while you are exhausted, it is clever rather than lazy. A tired mind protects...
22 Oct Layoff Anxiety: What Should You Do When Job Cuts Hit the Headlines?
Exceptional & Exhausted #13 When job cuts hit the headlines, be gentle with yourself and let the people who love you carry some of it with you, whether you are still waiting or have already had the meeting. Whatever happens next, it says nothing about your...
16 Oct Career Crossroads at 40: Do You Want the Next Ten Years to Look Like This?
Exceptional & Exhausted #12 At a career crossroads around 40, most Directors and VPs have been carrying the question for a year or two before they say it out loud. What keeps it unheard is the noise of the week: back to back meetings, a phone...
25 Sep Successful but Unhappy at Work? Whose Desire Were You Chasing?
If you are successful but unhappy at work, the success you chased may never have been your own desire. So often it comes from conditioning, our shadows, our patterns that formed as the adaptive response to adversity (especially) in childhood, fear and that chasing of...
18 Sep Astrology in Executive Coaching: Does It Actually Work for Senior Leaders?
Yes, used well, astrology is a practical tool in executive coaching. It's not fortune telling and I'm not predicting your future: a proper reading surfaces blind spots, limiting beliefs and the patterns running just below awareness that shape how you lead under pressure. Around 80%...
17 Jul How Do Senior Leaders Get Promoted Without Burning Out?
To get promoted without burning out, you first have to see what overdelivering pays you. For most senior leaders the payoff is the feeling of being needed, which feels like proof of worth and belonging. Because that payoff lives in the body as well as...
11 Jun Exceptional & Exhausted #8: Why AI Disruption Is an Identity Crisis for Senior Leaders
AI disruption is not primarily a skills question for senior leaders. It is an identity question. The leaders finding this moment hardest are not the ones who lack the technical understanding. They are the ones whose sense of professional worth is tied, in ways not...
09 Jun Exceptional & Exhausted #7: Why the faster you run, the further behind you fall
Senior leaders lose strategic thinking time not because they are poor at managing their calendars, but because a deeper pattern keeps filling that space with urgency. PwC surveyed 4,454 CEOs across 95 countries at the start of this year and found that most leaders are...
09 Jun Exceptional & Exhausted #6: The machine that forgot it needed rest
Senior leader burnout recovery rarely arrives as a single dramatic moment. It begins in the closing of a space most leaders do not notice disappearing — the gap between stimulus and response, between the request landing and the reaction already forming. When that space closes...