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Posted August 31st, 2010 by Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas
Have you been there? Frustrated that it’s nearly impossible to excel at work (and home!) because the structure of your workplace doesn’t fit your life? Too many of us are banging our heads against the wall these days. Despite the workplace crunch that many of us face, there’s good news. An increasing body of research [...]
Posted September 2nd, 2010 by Ian Blei
Unfortunately we have some very unhealthy fibers woven into the fabric of our culture—unhealthy from the perspective of untold damage with no rewards. Dating back through pre-colonial Puritan days, shame has been a large part of our culture. In a simplistic, black-and-white, childlike view, shame can be instrumental as part of the “good vs. evil” [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Jessica Glenn
This March, we were thrilled to be part of the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility. Through the President and First Lady’s leadership, the Obama Administration launched a national conversation on how innovative workplace flexibility strategies can help support working families and – at the same time – business’ bottom line. Indeed, the Forum echoed many [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Sue Bingham
Front-line employees are the backbone of industry. Many are also parents. When a mother or father comes home from a workday, one or both make dinner, helpthe kids with homework, read stories at bed-time – all working parents know we haveboth the role of employee and parent to fulfill. The vast majority of us want [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Chrysula Winegar
I have a friend in the professional services sector in New York, working in one of those pressure-cooker 24/7 type of environments I wrote about recently. In fact I have a whole lot of friends in these industries. They work insane hours and are, for the most part, remunerated very well. Most of them laugh at [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by ACLU
A school in Richmond, California, is handing schoolchildren jerseys embedded with RFID chips to keep so administrators can monitor children’s movement; problem is, RFID chips are unsecure, and could actually make preschoolers more vulnerable to tracking, stalking, and kidnapping.
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Ian Blei
Recommended reading for really getting the most out of this exercise is Hanna Arendt’s essays on definitions of Power, Strength, Force, Authority, and the huge differences between them. You’ll be surprised at just how different they are. Building on the last exercise concerning conflicting/contradicting directives from management, and losing your “best and brightest,” I’d like [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Debbie Koenig
Regular readers of my food blog know that my almost-four-year-old has been blessed with a, let’s say, discerning palate. (And by “discerning,” I mean that his list of Won’t Eats is approximately 638 times as long as the list of Will Eats.) This has been going on for close to two years now: I cook [...]
Posted August 31st, 2010 by John de Graaf
Consider a headline story in the New York Times from July 31, 1910, exactly one hundred years and one month ago: HOW LONG SHOULD A MAN’S VACATION BE? PRESIDENT TAFT SAYS EVERY ONE SHOULD HAVE THREE MONTHS. I’m not making this up. Three months! President Taft! The conservative Republican President who was most famous for [...]
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Joan C. Williams
When I decided to leave my job of 25 years and move with my family to San Francisco, my husband told me he was going to talk with the Chair of his Board and resign a job he loved. I suggested an alternative. “Why don’t you say, I am staying with the organization, but I’m [...]
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Ian Blei
How many times have you heard the advice, “keep your eye on the ball,” or “don’t look where you don’t want to go?” In every sport that uses a ball, it’s common knowledge that a singular point of concentration— the ball—is imperative to successfully hitting that mark. What happens when two different balls fly over [...]
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