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8 Tips for anger management

January 8th, 2010
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People at work are asking me why I am not working as many hours as I used to. I am. But I am working on anger management. Here are seven tips I've tried using:
1. Face the problem and make it a priority.
I used to think anger management problem is a thing for men who are [...]

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There's no magic pill for being lost.

Posted to: Parenting |  Self-management
December 4th, 2009
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When I was in the mental ward, it was mostly girls in their teens with messed up track records and eating disorders. But my roommate was from Kellogg, a top-ten business school.
I thought it was insane that she was there. She was so smart. She was going to be great at work. Her only problem [...]

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Shifting the balance of power. (Mainstream media stinks.)

Posted to: Journalism |  Parenting
November 6th, 2009
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I wake up Wednesday at 4am to a phone call: The Guardian, in London, asking for an interview about my miscarriage twitter. Then a half-hour later, an Irish radio station. And then the phone kept ringing.
I tell Now Magazine (I think it’s basically People magazine for the UK audience) to call back after I got the [...]

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How to deal with doubt: Take a leap

Posted to: Fulfillment |  Parenting
October 22nd, 2009
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The farmer broke up with me five times the first five months we were together, last year. So I learned that he had huge commitment issues.
I tried to do the advisable thing to do when you’re with someone who has commitment issues. I tried to fall in love with someone else. But I didn’t. I [...]

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How to divorce new-millennium style (and I love Kate Gosselin)

Posted to: Parenting
June 29th, 2009
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The generation leading the revolution in divorce is, of course, Gen X. The biggest change is that there is a generation of people getting a divorce who were more or less equals in parenting and in work. Baby boomers talked about it, but when the women went to work, they did all the housework and [...]

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New gender gaps for the new millennium

Posted to: Entrepreneurship |  Money |  Parenting |  Women
June 2nd, 2009
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I have said about ten million times that there is no more glass ceiling, there is no more salary gap between men and women, and there is no reason to keep bitching about sexual harassment because it’s merely a legal issue, not a men-are-evil issue.
Okay. So if the gender gaps are not around these feminist [...]

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Tips for coping when your startup is out of cash

May 15th, 2009
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My company is running out of money again. Well, really, it already happened. But it’s happened so many times that I am sort of used to it. It's a routine. You may recall that part of the routine is not paying my electric bill. But there is more.
1. Focus on something you can control.
You might [...]

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6 Tips for being a CEO without ruining your kids’ lives. I hope.

Posted to: Entrepreneurship |  Money |  Parenting
April 29th, 2009
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I get questions all the time about how I manage having kids and a startup at the same time. After trying to answer the question a few times, I realized that there's the pretty-much-BS answer about how it's all about being clear on your values. Or there’s the complicated, too-long-for-interviews answer.
To really get tips for [...]

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Take Your Child to Work Day should be cancelled

Posted to: Diversity |  Office Politics |  Parenting
April 23rd, 2009
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It’s time to admit that Take Your Child to Work Day is an outdated relic of 1970s feminism, and we can put the whole thing to rest.
Do you remember that the day started as Take Our Daughters to Work? It was the 70s, and women wanted their daughters to know that they could do anything. [...]

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Work stuff that makes me happy

Posted to: Diversity |  Entrepreneurship |  Parenting
December 8th, 2008
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It's a season of joy, right? You are probably thinking that you can count on my blog posts to be a respite from seasonal joy. But still, I'm susceptible to peer pressure. Mostly because I think it's an obligation of a friend to be sort of cheery. Because cheeriness is contagious. And on some level, [...]

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Feeling special is just as important as fitting in

Posted to: Diversity |  Parenting
October 8th, 2008
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Tomorrow is Yom Kippur, and you can bet that there will be no big financial announcements. This is because Jews make up a disproportionately huge number of people in finance. So when the Jews take off work for Yom Kippur, there is not enough liquidity in the financial markets for anything really big to happen. [...]

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3 Things to learn from the crashing careers of the super-rich

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Parenting |  Recruiters
September 22nd, 2008
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The market crash is going to mean a new era of banking, but it is also bringing along with it a few new ideas about how to manage one's career. This is not the first sector to experience catastrophe, but it might be the wealthiest one. And we can all learn a little about managing [...]

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Palin's children should take priority over being Vice President

Posted to: Parenting |  Women
September 4th, 2008
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Okay. Look. I wasn't going to tell you what I think of Sarah Palin, but so many people are asking, so fine. Here it is. She is nuts. And the Republicans are nuts for putting her on a ticket. She has a five-month-old kid with Down's Syndrome.
Why is no one writing about this? I have [...]

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Gen X are the revolutionaries (and the NYT coverage of shared care stinks)

Posted to: Parenting
July 7th, 2008
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How ironic that right after I post about dangers of Mommy Porn, the New York Times exacerbates this problem to include men. Take a look at the insipid photo that illustrates the article about shared care by Lisa Belkin.
But first, a disclaimer: I know Lisa, she's super nice and fun, and she talked with me [...]

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The hardest part of my job is that everyone lies about parenting

Posted to: Journalism |  Parenting
June 10th, 2008
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When I was growing up, there was lots of chatter in the media about how models gave girls bad role models. Today that's old news. What we should talk about now is how the media portrays moms.
Take a look at the spread in People magazine of Jennifer Lopez and her one-month-old twins. The photos are [...]

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Guest post: What life's really like for a stay-at-home dad

Posted to: Parenting
April 30th, 2008
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I have never let anyone guest post anonymously on this blog before, but today is an exception, and you'll see why if you keep reading.
Every time I write about stay-at-home dads, tons of them write to me. They always want me to tell their story. The only emails I get that say "contact me if [...]

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Advice from the top: Marry a stay-at-home spouse or buy the equivalent.

Posted to: Parenting |  Women
April 10th, 2008
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I just hired someone to take care of my house for $50,000 a year: A house manager. This is in addition to the full-time nanny I have. And the cleaning service. And the assistant I have at work.
I know the first thing going through your mind is that I'm loaded and I'm lucky. But I'm [...]

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Choosing the next company you work for: Leverage research about how Gen Y is parenting

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Parenting
March 28th, 2008
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One of the hardest parts of managing your career is getting clear on what's most important to you in the work you do. And it's ironic that the true-but-clichéd exclamation from new parents – "the kids force me to see what is really important in my life" — comes after we have navigated [...]

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Quit work for a while to have kids. Your career will be just fine

Posted to: Parenting |  Quitting |  Women
January 28th, 2008
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It's a myth that time away from the workforce will undermine your career. This myth is based on outdated ideas of the workplace. And it's an important myth to bust, because in today's post-feminist workplace, the majority of women say that given a choice, they would not choose full-time work when their kids are young.
Here [...]

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Stop thinking you'll get by on your high I.Q.

November 20th, 2007
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My son's I.Q. is in the top .05% of all preschoolers, but he attended preschool in a special education classroom. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism typified by a distinctly high I.Q. and a notable lack of emotional intelligence. Asperger's is thought to be genetic, and it is surging among kids in places [...]

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