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Posted August 31st, 2010 by Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas
**Scroll down to the comments section to see the conversation from our 9/2/2010 evening blog chat. And of course, you can still join the conversation by asking questions and typing your comments in the comment box. Hit “Submit Comment” and join our Q&A!** Have you been there? Frustrated that it’s nearly impossible to excel at [...]
Posted September 3rd, 2010 by Ian Blei
This is so powerful that this one single shift will catapult your efforts to improve everything from cost containment to business processes to personnel relations and teambuilding. From a Bang-for-the-Buck perspective, this change alone will give your life a healthy booster shot. Aside from shame and blame having a causal relationship to one another, they [...]
Posted September 2nd, 2010 by Valerie Young
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org HuffPo has a fascinating article about gender pay disparity and its causes – discrimination against women, or simply differing life style choices? A wonderful piece, but make sure you read all the way to the end. There’s a surprise! You’ll find it here: Examining the [...]
Posted September 2nd, 2010 by Amie Newman
Governor Schwarzenegger holds the power to improve access to maternity care coverage for all women in his state and ensure equitable coverage for children with pre-existing conditions. Last week, the California Legislature passed two bills which will significantly impact the health and lives of women and children. From Mercurynews.com: The bills approved Wednesday would phase [...]
Posted September 2nd, 2010 by Ian Blei
Unfortunately we have some very unhealthy fibers woven into the fabric of our culture—unhealthy from the perspective of untold damage with no rewards. Dating back through pre-colonial Puritan days, shame has been a large part of our culture. In a simplistic, black-and-white, childlike view, shame can be instrumental as part of the “good vs. evil” [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Jessica Glenn
This March, we were thrilled to be part of the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility. Through the President and First Lady’s leadership, the Obama Administration launched a national conversation on how innovative workplace flexibility strategies can help support working families and – at the same time – business’ bottom line. Indeed, the Forum echoed many [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Sue Bingham
Front-line employees are the backbone of industry. Many are also parents. When a mother or father comes home from a workday, one or both make dinner, helpthe kids with homework, read stories at bed-time – all working parents know we haveboth the role of employee and parent to fulfill. The vast majority of us want [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Chrysula Winegar
I have a friend in the professional services sector in New York, working in one of those pressure-cooker 24/7 type of environments I wrote about recently. In fact I have a whole lot of friends in these industries. They work insane hours and are, for the most part, remunerated very well. Most of them laugh at [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by ACLU
A school in Richmond, California, is handing schoolchildren jerseys embedded with RFID chips to keep so administrators can monitor children’s movement; problem is, RFID chips are unsecure, and could actually make preschoolers more vulnerable to tracking, stalking, and kidnapping.
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Ian Blei
Recommended reading for really getting the most out of this exercise is Hanna Arendt’s essays on definitions of Power, Strength, Force, Authority, and the huge differences between them. You’ll be surprised at just how different they are. Building on the last exercise concerning conflicting/contradicting directives from management, and losing your “best and brightest,” I’d like [...]
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Debbie Koenig
Regular readers of my food blog know that my almost-four-year-old has been blessed with a, let’s say, discerning palate. (And by “discerning,” I mean that his list of Won’t Eats is approximately 638 times as long as the list of Will Eats.) This has been going on for close to two years now: I cook [...]
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