No More Red Pens, I'm in the Wall Street Journal!
I’m in today’s Wall Street Journal, in Jeffrey Zaslow’s article titled “The Most-Praised Generation Goes to Work”.
You can find the lede here and the full article here until April 27. In the print version, the article is the cover story of the Weekend Journal section. My two cents can be found on page W7, under the subheader “No More Red Pens.”
A few weeks ago Jeffrey Zaslow emailed me because of a partially tongue-in-cheek, partially sincere post I wrote last May, as it related to the subject of praise in our culture. Lately the subject had been on my mind too, as I’d seen discussed in other articles like New York magazine’s “How Not to Talk to Your Kids.”
Jeffrey Zaslow writes a column called Moving On for the WSJ, where he explores the social complexities of office interactions and the individual foible and fancy we bring with us on our career paths. He’s literally the new Ann Landers since, while researching a story, he entered a contest to replace her and ended up winning the job — over 12,000 others at the Chicago Sun-Times. I love the way he couples research with insight and experience from his subjects, especially when he clarifies the tangible and intangible phenomena regarding perception, feelings and socialization.
To be a part of his process was super, super cool. He is a wonderful pleasure to talk to and I hope I get to repeat it one day.
Do I gush to much? I think here it’s fair.
He asked if I had indeed become impossible, if I had left office life to do anything of a more performance nature, and I said no.... But when I told him I was working towards something entirely different, something more, he encouraged my thoughts and plans, then wished me luck. You could say he offered just the right amount of praise and acknowledgment.
Thank you, Jeff!
Another gold star for Mia!
That’s funny!
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