10 Best Books for Navigating Tricky Conversations at Work
Last year, I had to tell my manager that a project she championed was failing. Not slightly behind schedule. Failing. The client hated it, the team was.
Amara Hassan
Amara is 31. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and moved to London at 17 on an academic scholarship. One suitcase. Her mother packed falafel and a prayer. First in her family to go to university.
Her father's name is Youssef. He ran a small textile shop in the Attarine district, the kind of place where the smell of cotton and cedar and must all mixed together into something that Amara has never smelled anywhere else but still recognizes in the back of her throat when she walks through certain
10 Best Books for Navigating Career Transitions After 50
I was 52 years old when I got laid off from a company I'd given 18 years of my life to. They called it "restructuring." I called it being escorted to the.
10 Best Books for Managing Time Blindness and Chronic Lateness
My boss was standing in the doorway of the conference room, arms crossed, watching me arrive 15 minutes late to the meeting I was supposed to be leading.
10 Best Books for Managing Impostor Syndrome as a Woman in Tech
I stared at the offer letter in disbelief. $185,000 base salary, plus equity, plus a signing bonus. For a senior software engineer position at a company I'd.
10 Best Books for Building Courage to Quit Your Job
I quit my job on a Thursday. Not because I had another one lined up. Not because I had a savings cushion that would last more than three months. Not because I.
