The most precious individual resources we have are time and health. While much of health is genetic and/or hereditary as well as environmental, the rest of it is entirely dependent upon what we do with our time. I was hit upside the head with this when I had my health challenges last year. The only actionable thing I could do per my doctors was to exercise … Read more
Why is this value important to me?
Who amongst us, contemplating parenting, hasn’t read an article or book (or 20) about raising kids with the right mindset? For each parent, what “right” means is individualized, to be sure. One thing I do find common amongst parents is the hope to raise a child who values experiences over material things. All experiences – the easy ones, the hard ones (heard of … Read more
An unplanned staycation is a recipe for wasted time and missed potential.
If you’re a parent of small children, a spouse, a busy entrepreneur and a leader in a large company, it probably sounds like heaven to have your spouse say to you “Babe, I think you should take a staycation. Stay at a hotel in the city for a couple of nights and just relax. I got your … Read more
We are not there yet
After a hiatus in this series due largely to helping my team kick ass at RJMetrics over the past quarter or so, I’m back, and I’m fired up.
This 6th post was to round out a series of 3 posts about what does flexibility in the workplace mean about company culture. I find myself in a place where I see the enabling of flexibility is … Read more
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There are a fair number of jokes and warnings out there about not asking certain kinds of questions, particularly around pregnancy. There’s not asking a woman if she’s pregnant. There’s also caution about saying whether the woman is pregnant, or the couple is (i.e. is the non-ankle-swelling, non-fatigued-as-I-don’t-know-what partner allowed to say that he/she is also pregnant when their partner is?). There’s even my … Read more
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Over the past 3 months, I’ve attempted to impress upon you that the key to #StartupParenthood is workplace flexibility. We talked about what flexibility at work looks like, how hard it is to measure, and even shared a few of my own foibles. So if we take it as a given that the key to any productive mix of the intensity of startups … Read more
Our March #StartupParenthood post on the RJMetrics blog was to be about how the flexible policies we have at RJ manifest in work hours for parents. That post hasn’t been published yet, but regardless of its outcome, I wanted to reflect in this post on what work hours mean to me. I have some pretty strong and perhaps egotistical feelings about measuring Hours Worked as a KPI, and it’s … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I made my way into a couple of twenty-something female colleagues’ lunch outing. When my analytics brain is going super fast all over the place, the best thing I can do sometimes is jump into someone else’s pool to get out of my own head. But what followed was amazing fodder for this #StartupParenthood series.
Both are in that marriage-is-new phase. One … Read more
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There is an irony in the amount of scheduling and rescheduling it took to get this post written. I have no more real example of #StartupParenthood than the past two weeks. But more on that later…
This post is the first in a series this year wherein I will talk about what makes startups and parenthood work for me as a female executive at … Read more