This month the Harvard Business Review has an article titled Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek (subscription required). This article presents all the research to show that the destruction of the family comes faster in situations where both parents work long hours, but the authors, Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce, [...]
Browsing category "Parenting"Game plan for peaceful coexistence of kids and career
Posted to: Finding a career | Parenting
November 17th, 2006
When Carin Rosenberg and Erik Lawrence got married, they had already done a lot of planning. They had a plan for a baby (lots of hands-on parenting) and careers (no out-of-control hours), and while each were earning advanced degrees, they had no plans for high-powered jobs. Save what matters by delegating what doesn't
Posted to: Parenting | Time management
October 13th, 2006
I am a huge fan of delegating. Part of what makes me good is that I love time management advice, and I'm constantly asking myself what is most important to me. I keep my list to about five things, and everything else is fair game for delegation. Also, I am lucky to have many traits [...] A peek at the office of the future
Posted to: Parenting
October 7th, 2006
I was checking out the information about the upcoming conference Office 2.0. I wanted to get a sense of what the future workplace would look like. There's not much information there, but I got a bit from the list of speakers: Why I like seeing women at war with each other
September 24th, 2006
Jenn Satterwhite has been ranting in my comments section, which has made me very happy. She is bringing up difficult issues and she is making me nervous about posting responses. This seems good. Friday smorgasbord
September 15th, 2006
Here are three tidbits I've collected that haven't fit in other places over the week. 9/11: Digging myself out of the debris
September 10th, 2006
I was at the World Trade Center when it fell. At each anniversary that passes I write my story, and each year it changes a little. This year, I have been thinking about that moment when I accepted death. Taking good care of a family is relative
September 7th, 2006
In response to my musings about what it means to be a blogger who is just a blogger, Alexandra Levit sent me an article about bloggers who support themselves blogging. I read it twice. Then I started checking out all the blogs, trying to uncover the secret of the million-dollar blog. The new stay-at-home dad paves new paths for moms
Posted to: Fulfillment | Parenting
August 29th, 2006
As more men call themselves stay-at-home dads, they redefine for both men and women what it means to stay home with kids. Men have learned a lot from watching women struggle with home life. The super-woman syndrome of the 1980s has squashed the desire to juggle committed parenting with a sixty-hour workweek, and Rolling Stones [...] Your family would be better off with a housewife (so would mine)
August 27th, 2006
Men should not marry women who have careers, according to an opinion piece at Forbes.com. The statistics are clear: I'm moving out of New York City
August 10th, 2006
It used to be that people moved to where their job was. But where you live has a lot of impact on how happy you are. So it makes sense that today people pick a city first and then find a job, and cities maven Wendy Waters thinks this trend will increase. I will be [...] The measures of our success
August 9th, 2006
It’s very hard to tell how you're doing in the blogosphere. I am, by nature, competitive, so I am always looking for ways to measure success. To this end, I've been using Technorati, the grand ranker of all blogs. Upbeat news about flextime requests
July 24th, 2006
The best thing you can do if you want a flexible schedule is ask for it. Younger workers are finding more and more success when they ask, which should give everyone encouragement to request flextime if they want it. When it comes to office politics, consider the sibling factor
July 7th, 2006
Time magazine's cover story is How Your Siblings Make You Who You Are. There are a few good tidbits about how your sibling experience affects how you are at work. The Wall Street Journal tries to guilt women into giving up maternity leave
July 6th, 2006
The Wall Street Journal gives terrible advice this week on "going from maternity leave to permanent resignation." Hold CEOs accountable for their parenting
Posted to: Parenting | Time management
June 8th, 2006
Fortune magazine ran an article titled "The Welshman, the Walkman, and the salarymen," which asked if the CEO, Howard Stringer, can fix Sony. At the end of the article, Stringer, who is married with two children is quoted as saying at company meeting, "I don't see my family much. My family is you." Get married first, then focus on career
June 1st, 2006
Women who want to have kids should make it a high priority in their early twenties to find a partner. This week's Newsweek cover story, Marriage by the Numbers, says is okay to wait until after 35 to get married. Newsweek is revising the saying that a woman has more chance of getting hit by [...] Stay-at-home parent worth six-figure salary
Posted to: Parenting
May 12th, 2006
In a moment of publicity genius, Salary.com compiled research to determine the value of a stay-at-home mom. The verdict: $134,121 a year. Expand your opportunities by finding a specialty
May 7th, 2006
I spent two hours this week writing an article about autism. My son was diagnosed with autism and I could write five hundred pages about dealing with the diagnosis. But then I reminded myself about specializing. About focus. Specialists get a lot of good things in this world, and people who dabble in everything get [...] My adventures in shared-care parenting
Posted to: Parenting
May 3rd, 2006
My husband and I both want to be home with our kids while they are young, and we downsized our standard of living enormously to do that. |
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