Posted in work/life, tagged Managing Expectations, time management, work/life, working from home on July 29, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s critical for your sanity and for the sake of work actually getting done to establish clear boundaries for the home office. This pertains to space - where is your workspace and who is allowed access to it - and to when you’re ‘at the office’ and when you’re ‘at home.’
I’ve highly recommend having a [...]
Posted in Direct Communication, tagged books, presentations, work/life on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been reading Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath. The book is about how to make your ideas sticky, so that people immediately get them, remember them, and act on them. The Heaths describe 6 ways make your ideas more sticky: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotion, and stories.
I [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged ideas, work/life on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged committing to work, expectation setting, work/life, working moms on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Decision Making, tagged overwork, sex, work/life on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Another bonus of visiting our family in Orlando is that my sister-in-law always has lots of great magazines. The March 2008 issue of Redbook quoted a study by the University of Gottingen in Germany about the relationship between sex and work.
According to the study, 35% of women who have sex once a week and 46% of [...]
Posted in work/life, tagged language, work/life on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the challenges of managing the intersection of work and life is that the language that we currently use to discuss it is misleading, and often dangerously so.
One of the phrases I hate is “having it all.” I hate it for a couple of reasons. It makes the person who wants to “have [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged childcare, committing to work, guilt, Parenting Wisdom, sick kids, work/life, working moms on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been working part time since the monkeys were born. When I first went back to work it was two days a week and over the last two years it’s slowly inched up to four days a week. That actually seems like the right amount for me to be able to feel somewhat successful in my career [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, Managing Talent, tagged career planning, committing to work, Millenials, work/life on January 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I read Marci Alboher’s Shifting Careers blog in the New York Times on Saturday, and have been thinking about her Friday post it all weekend.
She pointed to Marc Andreessen’s posts about creating a successful career. He makes some interesting points in the entries. I especially like what he has to say about making sure that you expose [...]
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged Heroes, work/life, balance, control on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve just gotten into the swing of posting every day or every other day. But now stuff is going on at home that is consuming the part of my brain that is typically reserved for thinking interesting thoughts. I might be slower to post for the next week or so. This is a relatively new blog - and if [...]
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged Parenting Wisdom, work, work/life, working moms on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I spent a few years before having children worrying about how I was going to be able to continue to do the engaging work of research, strategy, design and innovation and also have a rich family life in which I’m very involved in raising my children. To be honest, I’m still trying to figure it [...]
