Last week a LinkedIn post by a Chicago businessman went viral. The intention behind it is clearly good and I agree with the basic premise that employees are grown-ups and should never feel any need to “apologize for having lives.” But as I read it, I found myself bristling. I agree that we “never need
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Photo credit: iStock.com/grinvalds This is an awesome time of year to be reminded that perfect sucks. Perfect is boring, stressful, generally unattainable, always unsustainable, and, frankly, not that much fun! You certainly don’t need my permission, but let me at least play cheerleader for this concept! Drop the idealist vision of holidays. Drop
Continue Reading...The depiction of parental joy in this now-classic Staples commercial is NOTHING LIKE what I experience each back-to-school season!!! You??? (Note: this classic commercial is from Staples and is over 20 years old. We thank them advance for not getting mad at us for using it!) I definitely did NOT have kids when this
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With Thanksgiving weekend behind us but the “marathon at a sprint’s pace” of the holiday season just beginning, I found myself lying awake at 3am on Monday with the self-inflicted psychic weight of un-done to-do’s, existential wonderings, fears, lists of gifts to be bought, parenting dilemmas, carpools and logistics, emails to be sent, making sure
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It’s funny what you remember. One of my responsibilities at my former firm was marketing our funds to institutional investors. Over the 10+ years, I’m sure that I attended over 1000 meetings with current and prospective investors. But one really stands out in my mind – even though I’m sure the investor never realized the
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