Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

by Alyssa Mastromonaco

There is no bigger compliment than being intellectually curious about what someone else spends his or her days doing—it turned out that not having the answers did me no harm. The feedback I got was that the WHMO directors all “felt good about my leadership.”

Preparation is protection you can create for yourself; for some people, the hard part may be balancing precautions with paranoia, but in my experience, you can never be too prepared.

From the beginning of my career in politics, I had a personally imposed policy about swimming in my lane and not overcommenting on things I wasn’t an expert on.