Having it All – Step 1: Staying in the game
With all of the conflicting advice about how to "have it all" (or not) out there now, we wanted to offer some practical advice about how it is possible to achieve a balance of work and family from the start. Early childhood (0-5) is a vital and intense period. This...
Marissa Mayer’s Work-from-Home Ban: Management not Leadership
Image released by NBC shows Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer appearing on NBC News' "Today" show, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 in New York to introduce the website's redesign. (AP Photo/NBC Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire) Friends and colleagues, with a big sigh, are talking about...
Social Media and the Currency of Empathy
What would you do if not one but two of your beloved friends were diagnosed with leukemia, each with 1 in 20,000 odds of finding a bone marrow donor who could save their lives? This is not a theoretical example. Recently in a Case Western Reserve University Masters of...
The Innovator’s Empathy
Wonderful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&client=mv-google&hl=en&v=tvos4nORf_Y&nomobile=1 “When I have my interview with God at the end of my life, he’s not going to ask how high I went in anybody’s org chart or how much money I left behind in the...
McKinsey Wooing Moms Back…Hidden Strength will be Empathy
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323764804578314450063914388.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle Just right. Go Firm. What's wrong-headed though is this line of debate in the article: Work and family experts often tout moms as "great...
Independent Work is (Only) Part of the Answer
On HBR Blog Network, Whitney Johnson writes: Independent Work May be Inevitable http://blogs.hbr.org/johnson/2013/02/independent-work-may-be-inevit.html Absolutely. Independent work is inevitable (and a huge blessing) for some of the most talented people in our...
It’s about Time: Work-Family Balance is NOT a Women’s Issue
Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; "Why Gender Equality Stalled" by Stephanie Coontz, New York Times Sunday Review, February 17, 2013 Finally, a terrific article about why gender equality has hit a wall in the US....
“I ‘Get’ You”…Professionally
Marvin Bower, from McKinsey.com http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/Knowledge_Network/Our_People_and_Values/Our_Culture.aspx World-class professional development is key to the second part of the framework suggested in this blog (1. vision, 2. can I grow here?, 3. being...
“I ‘Get’ You”
What is the currency of empathy in a family? It's pretty simple really. It's love, but our busy-ness and competing priorities get in the way. In the WSJ yesterday, "Small Acts, Big Love" highlighted how couples say I love you with everday deeds...
Children and Puppies…and Empathy
Our children not only begged for a dog, they prepared over 2 years. They researched breeds, asked us to vote on options, helped organize the house, and searched petfinder endlessly to find our perfect pet. They deserved that dog. Yet, I stalled. A dog is work, and no...
Not Another Manic Monday
Research now confirms what we instinctively feel. To be most effective, we need to maximize energy, creativity, productivity.....not the amount of time we spend at work. 90 minute increments of work with breaks in between. Full nights of sleep. Naps. Mid day runs....
Women and Leadership
Adding to the debate on why we have fewer women leaders than we might expect, President Debora Spar of Barnard College offers helpful advice about not trying to be perfect everywhere and helping each other...
