I Dare To Dream, Because My Mother Couldn't An exercise in instilling the next generation with the ability to think big, through one Mom who did just that.
Updated Thu May 10, 2012
How To Get Middle Managers To Support Flexible Work Middle-manager support can be the difference between success and failure of a work flexibility strategy and, yet, it remains elusive. Here are the 5 ways to get middle managers to support flexible work.
Updated Thu May 3, 2012
The Workplace Challenges Political Candidates Have To Address Issues related to work and life will directly impact economic growth that presidential and congressional candidates say is their primary focus. Productivity and innovation can’t happen without considering the reality people face on and off the job.
Updated Fri Apr 27, 2012
How The Happiest People In The World Spend Their Money People can feel trapped by their careers--whether it's because they're earning too little, are waiting for a big payout, or have grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle. Laura Vanderkam's new book, "All the Money in the World: What the Happiest People Know About Getting and Spending," offers a new approach to finances for a modern, more flexible reality.
Updated Fri Apr 27, 2012
It's 10 P.M., Do You Know Where Your Employees Are? 4 Steps To Set After-Hours Work Expectations Leaders fail to clarify their personal preferences for staying connected to work with technology, and don’t share their expectations of the responsiveness with their direct reports. This leads to misguided assumptions that can wreak havoc on work/life balance--and most leaders have no idea any of this is happening.
Updated Wed Feb 8, 2012
3 Reasons Every Extrovert Should Read The New Book "Quiet" Up to a half of the population are introverts. In other words, they don’t thrive on endless meetings, don’t want to solve a problem by talking about it with a group for hours, and don’t want to attend lunches, conferences, and dinners all the time. The new book "Quiet" by Susan Cain can help us extroverts better communicate with and learn from the more silent types in our lives.
Updated Mon Jan 23, 2012
7 Ways To Motivate Employees With Workplace Flexibility Organizations that employ a healthy and robust work/life flexibility--and not just on paper--will win the talent war. Allison O’Kelly, CEO of Mom Corps, a staffing services company, offers pain-free ways to move your company toward greater flexibility that benefits you as well as your employees.
Updated Thu Dec 15, 2011
Will Working Remotely Work? 7 "What If" Scenarios To Consider First The difference between success and failure with any type of flexible work, including remote work, comes down to contingency planning. In other words, answering the question: "What if 'x' happens...?" to as many scenarios as you can possibly think of upfront.
Updated Wed Nov 16, 2011
How To Uncover Blind Spots When Mapping Your Career Path In her thought-provoking new book "Blind Spots," Alexandra Levit reintroduces the long-absent and important, “Yes, but…” and “So…” to some of today’s most common career beliefs.
Updated Tue Nov 8, 2011
Learning To Embrace Uncertainty And Ride The Butterflies In his new book, Uncertainty, creation, marketing and innovation expert, Jonathan Fields, lays out the path that everyone can follow to embrace the increasing ambiguity that pervades our lives and work daily. Uncertainty breaks down the steps that help you not only survive but thrive, personally and professionally, in a world where the unknown is the new normal.
Updated Thu Sep 29, 2011
How To Create A "Big Enough" Company That Fits Your Unique Work And Life Goals While I fumbled and stumbled my way to creating a business that “fit” my unique professional and personal goals, the good news is that you don’t have to follow a path of trial and error.
Updated Wed Sep 21, 2011
Workforce Shifts Demand A New Slate Of Questions About Work/Life Issues The omission of “life” from questions about “work” is very Industrial Age. Twenty years ago, work and life were two separate and distinct spheres, at least in theory. Today, our contingent, global, on-demand virtual workforce has a whole new host of issues to consider, lest it flounder under the weight of misaligned personal obligations and circumstances.
Updated Mon Sep 19, 2011
Flex And The C-Suite: Barbara Taylor Of BDO USA, "Don't Be The Last Person To The Party" Barbara Taylor, the General Counsel of BDO USA, for the past five years, has been the senior leader champion of the firm's award-winning BDO Flex strategy. Taylor shares important insights into why work+life flexibility is a strategic imperative and about the process the firm has followed to make it part of the culture.
Updated Fri Jul 22, 2011
Telework Without Working From Home Or In A Cafe With Loosecubes Historically, if you wanted to work remotely to avoid a long commute but didn't want to work from home, you would have been out of luck. Not anymore. What if you had an alternative that gave you the ability to telework, but in a real office environment? Would that prompt more people to work remotely?
Updated Tue Jul 12, 2011
Is "Wellness" On The Job Possible Without Greater Work Flexibility? How do we square the circle of wellness in the workplace with studies showing more Americans are work on the weekends and that people now think that a 40-hour workweek is a reduced schedule?
Updated Mon Jul 11, 2011
Can Retail, Call Center, And Housekeeping Staff Have Work-Life Flexibility? New research shows that we're all much more comfortable with the concept of work+life flexibility. We no longer expect lawyers, managers or web designers to always show up to an office, 9-to-5, Monday through Friday. But what about retail sales associates, call center workers, or housekeeping staff in hotels?
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
Survey: Workers Want Flexibility, But There's Too Much Work Flexibility in how, when, and where work is done--and life is managed--is no longer a bright, shiny, novelty item that only a few people have.
Updated Thu Jun 9, 2011
Why I'm Not Surprised That Utah's 4/10 Compressed Workweek Failed Unfortunately, I wasn't surprised by the news that Utah state lawmakers recently voted to override the Governor's veto of a bill requiring state agencies to be open Monday through Friday, effectively ending Utah's three-year 4/10 compressed workweek initiative. In fact, I saw it coming.
Updated Sun May 22, 2011
Where Are Men In The Work Life Conversation? They're Starting To Arrive
A couple of months ago, Selena Rezvani, author of The Next Generation Women Leaders, wrote an article in The Washington Post entitled "Where are the Men in the Work/Life Conversation?" I've grapp
Updated Wed May 11, 2011
Is Your Business Stuck? If An Afghan Dressmaker Can Do It, So Can You Kamila Sidiqi, "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana," is resilient, creative and persistent in the face of seemingly endless roadblocks. If the dressmaker can do it, we all can. In fact, on some level, we must.
Updated Tue May 3, 2011
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