Tuesday Home Office Tip: Have a virtual snack

Working from home, I have many days when I’m mostly sitting at my desk, working on a variety of things that don’t require a lot of interaction with other people, don’t require getting up, and don’t require movement. But I can’t sit at my desk for more than about an hour at a time without [...]

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Lessons from the NYT

I was a bit surprised to see an article about working and parenting in the Openers Section of this Sunday’s NYT Business section. I’ll admit, I thought there would be more pressing things to write about. But I appreciate the coverage of a topic that is, of course, close to my heart. There are three key issues [...]

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Tuesday Home Office Tip: Create a Morning Routine

OK, this is very sad. I’ve been forgetting to post on Tuesdays with my Home Office Tips. Guess that’s what a few weeks of traveling followed by a few weeks of sick kids will do to you.
 
But it’s a great set up for today’s tip: create a routine. Flexibility has tremendous benefits. But it also [...]

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Getting to know me

OK, I’ll admit it. I’ve been a bit unmotivated lately. You may have noticed the dearth of posts. I’ve noticed the dearth of interesting thoughts in my head. While I’ll allow some slackerdom due to holidays, general chaos, sick kids, and such, I’d like to get back into the swing of things.
I’ve been playing around with how to [...]

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Tuesday Home Office Tips: Ignore the Lure of the Telephone Ringing

I can’t believe it’s Tuesday again already.  It’s been hard for me to blog about anything given that instead of working from home, I’ve been trying to work from various airports.
That said, I’ve got a good quick tip for today. Don’t pick up your office phone after ‘business hours.’ Those hours can be whatever you [...]

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Tuesday Home Office Tips: Shoot the shit

One of the drawbacks of working from home is that you’re not bumping into people in the kitchen, in the bathrooms, or in the elevators for random conversations. This often means that you don’t have casual conversations with folks, and if you don’t have a specific reason to talk to someone, you probably never actually [...]

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Tuesday Home Office Tips: Make lunch dates.

I’ve had trouble finding time to blog lately. To help myself get a bit more disciplined, I’m succuming to a tried and true blogger tactic – the weekly column.
A lot of folks who juggle work and family life have the amazing opportunity of doing them both in the same place – working from home. I’ve [...]

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Knowing when you’ve got it good

My company is in the business of helping our clients generate insights and ideas. Finding out what really matters to people in the world, recognizing what it is and how it can impact the creation of new products, services, new businesses or new directions for a brand, and identifying what those new ideas and directions [...]

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Is the mommy track alive and well?

I had a chance to have dinner with an old friend the other night. Once we got through the stories about how cute our kids are and the stories about what our mutual friends are now doing, we started comparing notes on the whole part-time working mom thing.
We both love working part time and really value the time [...]

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Finding your learning edge

I bought two great 3 piece puzzles by Melissa & Doug over a year ago. Both have animals  that are easy for the monkeys to recognize and really big pieces with big knobs to hold onto. The monkeys started playing with them when they were about 12 months old, and could do them by 18 months. Today, I was organizing the toys and put [...]

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