Saturday July 19, 2008

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Lisa’s Inspiring Story: From Stay-at-Home Mom to World-Class Taekwondo Champ

I recently spoke at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference for Women, and shared the panel with two amazing women, Debbie Epstein Henry from Flextime Lawyers LLC, and Cooper Munroe from themotherhood.com website.
When you give a speech, especially to almost 1,000 people, you often have no idea what impact your words have had; however, that night on […]

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Flexibility Get Traction in the “C-Suite”

The “C-Suite” positions composing the most senior levels in organizations—CEO, CFO, CIO, and President—are beginning to discover work+life flexibility as a strategic business imperative. This linkage to broader organizational growth objectives will ultimately transform the way we work and live. Where’s the evidence?
First, I was interviewed for an article in this month’s CIO […]

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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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Work+Life Research You Probably Won’t Hear About (But Might Make You Think Differently)

But first, check it out…my Workopolis TV interview for Canada’s Report on Business Network (Air date 2/14/07, so scroll down to almost the bottom of the “Thrive at Work” column for the link.) and my interview on The Cranky Middle Manager Show with Wayne Turmel on The Podcast Network (Love new technology!)
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Breaking Down Stereotype #2–It’s a Mothers’ Issue

We start the off the new year by examining the belief that work+life challenges are a “mothers’ issue.” If a stereotype is a “standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion,” then this is a perfect example. It’s true that working mothers […]

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Banish the Word “Balance,” Say Top Women Executives

You may have heard a loud “Thank You!” coming from the New Jersey area this week as I read the following quote from Carol Bartz, Executive Chairman of Autodesk. In a Wall Street Journal article by Carol Hymowitz, entitled “View From the Top,” Ms. Bartz said that “The word ‘balance’ should be banished from […]

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Daddy “Wars” — Defining It? Why not just forget it altogther and focus on the real issues…

Oh, no! I continue to pray that dads resist the rabbit hole of “daddy wars” that have distracted moms from real work+life issues for too many years. My desire to get all of us–men and women in all stages of life–to focus on the real issues prompted me to start writing my book […]

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Boston College Global Workforce Roundtable–Launch, Mission and Impact

One of the many reasons I started this blog was to share the important and interesting work being done by the dedicated professionals in the Work-Life field. Unfortunately, much of this work is never covered by the mainstream media. Yet it ultimately influences how we collectively combine work and life. So I love […]

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Work+Life “Wars” — Approval and Stereotypes

The Work+Life “Wars”—Mommy Wars, and now Daddy Wars—have always baffled me. Are these wars real? I often wonder (and have written about the subject before). And assuming they are real, for at least a portion of the population, what is the underlying source of the conflict?
In any war, there are […]

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