Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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(Check out my latest Fast Company blog post, “Launching the “Attention” Movement, Distracted by Maggie Jackson)
One of the most entrenched mindset shifts we need to make about work and life in the 21st century is that it’s no longer a dichotomous choice between working or not working. The truth is that there are countless […]
Monday, April 28th, 2008
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(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 […]
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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Recently I was asked to offer tips for two very different groups–working parents for BusinessWeek.com and small businessowners for SmartMoney.com.
BusinessWeek’s Working Parents Blog — How to Keep Your Job (And Flexibility!) in a Recession
For BusinessWeek’s Working Parents Blog, blogger Lauren Young asked me to provide advice to working parents about how to keep […]
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
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EMPLOYEES WANT THE NEXT PRESIDENT’S AGENDA TO MAKE
WORK LIFE FLEXIBILITY EASIER FOR COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2007 WORK+LIFE FIT REALITY CHECK INCLUDE:
• More want to work differently than work less; only 5 percent favor reducing work schedule by more than 10 hours
• Almost 9 out of 10 believe work life flexibility would have […]
Monday, November 26th, 2007
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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 […]
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
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“Summer Blowback”
While it may seem like I fell off the face of the earth for the past month, in fact I’ve been busy experiencing “summer blowback.” In other words, I’ve been doing all of the things I agreed to do this summer while dealing with my mom’s illness and death without thinking clearly about […]
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
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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, […]
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
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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 […]
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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Note from Cali: As many of my regular readers know, sadly, my mother is in the last stages of her fight with lung cancer. One way I am adjusting my work+life fit is to draw upon the expertise of some wonderful experts and writers who will appear periodically as guest bloggers.
This […]
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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On this day before the unofficial start of Memorial Day weekend, I thought I’d share some random work+life fit related observations and insights that wouldn’t necessarily fill an entire posting, but are interesting nonetheless….
Coverage of the Tuck/Aquent/Work+Life Fit Surveys…Fast Company, Bloomberg, and Time
“Because I Did It That Way”-itis: Over the past month, I’ve found […]