A good read for anyone who’s ever struggled at work
‘All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and Leading Authentically’By Jim Fieldingc.2023, Wiley$28/213 pages Auditions are always nerve-wracking.
Will the part be yours? You sure practiced enough before you were judged – and that’s what an audition is, a judgment. Can you handle the lines?
Are you a fit for the part you want, or would you be better at a walk-on? Being someone else in a play is fun, but not always easy.
Neither, says Jim Fielding in his new book “All Pride, No Ego,” is being someone else at work. Born in Toledo into a big extended clan, Jim Fielding says that it looked like he was a member of “the perfect, nuclear family.” The truth was, though, that “vulnerabilities and dysfunctions were numerous” and that included homophobia, which was a problem: when he was six years old, Fielding realized he was gay.
