Embrace Work-Life…All of Us.
Stop blaming your boss for your crazy work-life, by Katherine Reynolds Lewis
Each week, [Cali Yost] advises setting aside time to put on your calendar every task on your to-do list, whether that’s a date night with your spouse, two hours of focused strategic planning, or a specific work project. If you can’t find a block of time for certain items, you’ll either have to put them off or delegate them to someone else. As you see commitments coming up that will require you to shift your work schedule, communicate with your family and colleagues to make it happen. Read more here.
How I learned to love the work-life treadmill, by Joanna Weiss
If I were to judge Sandberg for her own work-life choices, then someone could easily judge me for putting my kids in day care. So be it. I truly believe that kids from loving families will be fine. This is about parents setting their own boundaries…. The ones on the work-life treadmill? Without a household staff? We might be the luckiest ones of all. Read more here.
We Are All Part of the Work/Life Revolution, by Stew Friedman
The Twitterverse has been aflame with a lot of noise about Sheryl Sandberg, Anne Marie Slaughter, and Marissa Mayer. But a lot of this talk is knee-jerk criticism that misses the big picture: our nation’s failure to address the issue of integrating work and the rest of life has finally emerged as a critical economic, social, political, and personal issue affecting not only women, but all of us, and it’s capturing deservedly serious attention and accelerating experimentation with new models in our brave new world. For the first time in the 25 years since I’ve been studying the intersection of work and life, it’s now front-page news and everyone has an opinion — because for the first time everyone feels that they have a stake and a voice. It’s no longer only a women’s issue. Read more here.
