Saturday July 19, 2008

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“Whoever said this would be easy?” My FlexPaths Blog

Every other week, I will be guest blogging at FlexPaths.com…Check out my most recent post below:
Last week I asked a friend who doesn’t have children her thoughts on Lisa Belkin’s article in The New York Times about equal parenting. She responded, “It made it look so hard, I can see why women […]

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Is the Problem Women Doctors, or the Way Doctors Work?

(Click here to check out this week’s Fast Company post “Work+Life Flex as Retention-Retirement Strategy? Yes, Say More Retirees and Companies“)
A British medical journal, a Canadian magazine and the medical blogosphere have ignited a controversial debate around the following premise:
There are too many women doctors who want to work part-time, which is […]

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Work+Life in BusinessWeek’s Future of Work? Yes, and No

First, I want to thank everyone for their inspiring and supportive comments and emails in response to my blog posting last week, “Mom’s Peaceful Passing—Eldercare True Confessions.” I promise to use my experience to keep the dialogue going. Now back to this week’s posting….
Imagine my excitement when BusinessWeek arrived with the cover story, […]

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Mom’s Peaceful Passing—Eldercare True Confessions

My mom peacefully passed away on July 6th after waging a heroic eighteen-month battle with lung cancer. I want to thank everyone who has sent messages of support and shared their personal stories of caring for an adult they loved. It has meant so much to me and I thank you from […]

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Fathers’ Day Reality Check–It is an Everyone Issue

First, let me spread some blog love: Welcome, Kathie Lingle, Executive Director of the Alliance for Work-Life Progress to the blogosphere with her new blog. Her knowledge and experience is on display full force in her posting this week where she challenges the reality of the “opting-out” trend with an abundance […]

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Tuck/Aquent/WLF Survey Results–Recognizing Fundamental Change in Work, Career Paths and Talent Management

While evidence continues to mount that the realities of work and career paths have fundamentally and permanently changed, formal career and talent management strategies have not kept pace. This lag between recognizing that a shift has occurred and adapting organizationally and individually was obvious from the results of the two surveys I recently conducted […]

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Job-hopping vs. “Grindhopping”

Mommy Wars RIP?: It looks like the myth of the Mommy Wars may finally be drawing its last breath (see also Washington Post). Hopefully, now we can focus on the real question: How do we all—men, women, single people, parents, eldercare providers, retirees–work and have a personal life in a 24/7, high-tech, global […]

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Not Just Companies, Academic Medicine Finding Challenges, Too!

Last Call!!! Tuck Business School/Aquent/Work+Life Fit Survey: Please take a minute to complete one or both of the following brief surveys studying new career paths from both the individual and corporate perspectives—Deadline, Thursday, April 19th (to learn more please click here )
Corporate Hiring Manager Survey Link
Individual Survey Link
Incentive Magazine Q&A – Check […]

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New Study: Flexibility Key Talent Management Strategy to Retain “Everyone”

The National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Demographics study just released today by the Center for Aging & Work at Boston College offers another piece of evidence that it is critically important for organizations and individuals pull back the lens and broaden the work+life debate to include the need for flexibility across all demographics. […]

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Marci Alboher’s “One Person/Multiple Careers” Book

One of my primary goals is to expand the work+life conversation to include all of the countless reasons for adjusting your work+life “fit” over the course of your life and career.
We hear a lot about the challenges of working while caring for children or an aging relative. We are beginning to talk […]

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