LOIS

The Journal

What We Are Reading, Thinking And Arguing About

Work after fifty, written by the women doing it. What changes when experience stops being a footnote and starts being the offer.

The Most Vivid Person In Your Business Is Fifty-Eight

Every other job board sells you reach. More candidates, more applications, a bigger pile to sort through by Friday. Lois sells you culture, and it is worth being specific about what that…

Turn It All The Way Up

Somebody said it to you once and they probably meant it kindly. You are a lot. You are very direct. Perhaps soften it a little — for the client, for the room,…

The Room Changes When You Walk In, And You Know It

Let us start where the modesty usually does. You walk into a meeting that has been going round in circles for forty minutes. Within a few sentences the circling stops. Somebody finally…