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Start Thinking About Dad!

Father’s Day is 11 days away from today, June the 6th. Is 11 days long enough to find the perfect gift? Many fathers say that

June 6, 2007

How often do you take a personal day from work? – WORKPLACE SURVIVAL DIALOG

That’s the question asked by Kate over at Starmedia in her contribution to the Workplace Survival Dialog titled I Owe, I Owe, It’s off to

May 31, 2007

WORKPLACE SURVIVAL Dialog – New Contributions

There are two new contributions to the Workplace Survival Dialog: Jonathan-C. Phillips at SmartWealthyRich weighs in with Recharge Your Batteries. Natalie at LogoTree brings us

May 24, 2007

WORKPLACE SURVIVAL Dialog – First Contributions

I’d like to thank the following people for contributing to the Workplace Survival Dialog: Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends Dina Giolitto of Wordfeeder.com Carl

May 22, 2007

Shaping a Partnership

My post, The Test of a Good Partner, from May 7th sparked several responses, all of them inquisitive and the majority of them positive. I

May 17, 2007

Does Life Balance Include Working Evenings and Weekends?

You can’t let others tell you what they perceive as the ‘right way’ to achieve life balance. Some might say that working evenings and weekends

May 15, 2007

Mothers and Work-Family Balance

Four-in-Ten working moms would take a pay cut to spend more time with their kids, according to the annual mother’s day survey put out by

May 14, 2007

Happy Mother’s Day

Mother’s come in all shapes and sizes but what matters is what something is, not what someone calls it. You might be labeled the Soccer

May 11, 2007

Remotely Controlling Life’s Little Distractions

How much time away from work do you take? Probably not enough as most of us don’t! If you aren’t sure Tim Ferriss, author of

May 11, 2007

I Can’t Get No … Satisfaction

Are you one of the many people walking around singing the Rolling Stones song Satisfaction? You know the one – I can’t get no satisfaction,

May 10, 2007

The WORKPLACE SURVIVAL Dialog

Today’s workplace is weighed down by jerks, bullies, tyrants, and despots is what Robert Sutton author of The No Assholes Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace

May 8, 2007

The Test of a Good Partner

What makes a good partner? I’m referring to partner in a business sense here. When I refer to “partner” here I’m referring to how I

May 7, 2007

Stay-At-Home Moms are, Not Surprisingly, Underpaid

clipped from news.yahoo.com NEW YORK (Reuters) – If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper,

May 3, 2007

A Day to Balance Work and Family

Did you know that this Thursday, April 26th, is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day? Are you planning to participate?

According to the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day program was founded to create an opportunity for girls and boys to share and communicate their expectations for the future.

April 24, 2007

Work-Family Balance and Gender Lines

Courtney E. Martin has an interesting article over at The American Prospect titled “Fighting Apart for Time Together: Why is all the activism for work/life balance split along gender lines?”

Ms. Martin takes the very complicated issue of work-family balance activism and makes it understandable. Here is how the discussion shakes out:

April 18, 2007

Virginia Tech – In Our Thoughts

My PDA phone cashed it in the other day and I had to purchase a new one. I’ve spent several hours over the past 3 days getting up to speed and ensuring that all my data has transfered to the new one. I also played around a bit, much to my wife’s amusement, importing some pictures so that when my wife and kids called, I’d see their smiling faces on my phone’s display.

My daughter is a bit finicky about her photos and didn’t like the one that I chose, so I went to her MySpace page to download one that she had posted, reasoning that she’d obviously given it the thumbs up, and here’s what I found instead:

April 17, 2007

Family Friendly Workplaces for Fathers

Fact: When we talk about “family friendly” companies, we’re usually thinking about working mothers, not working fathers.

Family friendly workplaces are usually characterized by discussions surrounding flexible hours, telecommuting, time off and leaves, child care support and assistance, and company culture – and company culture involves all of the aforementioned.