I want to share some really good news. This past November, my book, Sexual Harassment in Organizational Culture, won both the book of...

It is Halloween, my friends, and the ghouls are about, the children are dressed up and the treats are all out. You sit by your front...

Part 2 of a four part series on fear and courage in organizations Yesterday I went to see the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movie...

“Hello customers/clients/employees/constituents, this is organization X and I want you to know that we value Fear. Yep, we do everything...

Many years ago, when I was a highly opinionated undergraduate student in Speech Communication at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, I explained...

Last night I had a nightmare. I dreamed that I did not have time to read Francie Smith’s (who graduated at least 10 years ago)...

Dear Dr. D.,What do you call it when a young woman flirts and teases a young man, getting him all aroused, then laughs and runs away,...

Sticks and Stones may Break your Bones, but Sexual Harassment Leaves Scars.

I went to visit my Grandmother last week. She told me that my new book, Sexual Harassment and Organizational Culture, reads like a novel...

I have been in a lot of pain lately. Not the existential kind. The physical kind. It has been going on for close to five months and I am...

Let me start with a confession. I have been in a bit of trouble lately. Yep, as a woman, apparently I am not supposed to have opinions on...

What would have happened if Superman had decided that everyone can fly if they really want to? Or, "if you just punch harder, then you...

If organizational cultures are webs of meaning, then who weaves the web? Who is caught in the web? Are managers the spider or the fly?

Here are some of the ways that organizational leaders inadvertently damage their organizational cultures.

How do we recognize wicked problems, like sexual harassment? This blog provides advice about how problems become embedded in an organization

The paradox of femininity makes it impossible for women to be judged as good, or even as good enough.

This blog uses personal stories and the children's movie "Rescue Heroes" to describe traumatic masculinity.

By Debbie S. Dougherty I am sorry to have to tell you this, but we are not as special as we think we are. The problem isn’t that we think...

By Debbie S. Dougherty Has anyone else found the questions about what is a woman kind of weird? I mean, usually people obsess about...

A friend of mine told me she loved my blog, but could not share it because she lived in a conservative community. I was surprised,...