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How to Build a Cabinet: Leadership Lessons from the Hamilton Creative Team
Bethany Crystal – Feb 21, 2019
Transfer learning (and transferring your learnings)
Bethany Crystal – Feb 20, 2019
Today I learned about transfer learning as a machine learning principle. I liked the concept so much that I immediately applied a mental map about this in my own head to how it might relate to job transitions in the [...] Read more
Let’s talk about titles
Bethany Crystal – Feb 19, 2019
I’m really starting to believe that job titles don’t matter all that much. I know we’re conditioned to believe that’s not the case. We’re trained to aim for the highest sounding title in the book, the loftiest honors of course [...] Read more
Losing your voice at the most inconvenient times
Bethany Crystal – Feb 17, 2019
I’ve only lost my voice twice in my life. But it always seems to happen at the most inconvenient times. Since on the edge of losing my voice for the third time in my life, it’s making me think back [...] Read more
The trouble with being sick
Bethany Crystal – Feb 16, 2019
The trouble with being sick is that you can’t get anything done. You can’t go outside. (It’s far too cold.) You can’t go out to eat. (Who knows how it’ll affect your stomach?) You can’t make friends at a bar. [...] Read more
Nobody likes you
Bethany Crystal – Feb 14, 2019
Nobody texted me back. I checked back to my initial texts: One sent at 11:40 a.m. The next sent at 12:59 p.m. The third at 1:41 p.m. The message in each was exactly the same: “Hey, I’d love to see [...] Read more
Who anoints you with decision-making power?
Bethany Crystal – Feb 13, 2019
Yesterday was the monthly meeting of a “boss book club” that I’m a part of. (For reference, this is not a book club comprised of “bosses.” It’s more like an analysis on the workplace term “boss,” in which some ladies [...] Read more
The “business book” version of Harry Potter
Bethany Crystal – Feb 11, 2019
I own at least 50 different business books. I’ve even read “most of” most of them. And this, in itself, is the trouble with most business books. You can read the first 60% (sometimes, even the first 40%) and get [...] Read more
Boardroom Confidence: Nature, Nurture, or Does it Matter?
Bethany Crystal – Feb 10, 2019
Earlier today, I read this opinion piece in The New York Times about how girls, more so than boys, tend to work harder in school but fail to pull as much rank as their male counterparts later in life at [...] Read more