Today is my birthday, but this post is less about age and more about the depth of passion and focus at any age which exalts ones career and sends one soaring above the rest. I wonder, does the quest toward work life balance need to take a back seat for a short time on the road to greatness?
Professor and Organizational Development expert Neal Chalofsky PhD addresses those questions in his new book, Meaningful Workplaces: Reframing How and Where We Work (Jossey-Bass 2010). His book is based on years of research which explore how some Human Resource driven programs impacted workplace culture, by focusing on a humanistic
Hang onto your day job. It’s a thread of conversation among folks looking to ditch their job in favor of pursing their passion of entrepreneurship. But unless you have buckage in the bank to pay your bills for a year in addition to the investment of starting a new business, most small business pundits would not suggest throwing in the towel cold turkey.
On any given afternoon at a local TV news station in New York, 26 year-old Adam Seigel can be found – before his shift as a director – blow drying the hair of various news anchors and reporters.
Caught in the whirlwind of frenetic conversation while reviewing 2007 with a few pals, a colleague of mine decided that she, a mother of three young children, would make a monumental change to impact her WorkLife Strategy in 2008. “I really want to work more in 2008, and I’m putting myself out there,” she told me enthusiastically. “I’m going to attract more freelance work. Period.”
What’s the best way to assess worklife needs heading into 2008?
Judy’s Top Ten WorkLife Strategies for 2008:
With career success often comes the desire to give back not just around the holidays, but all year round. That’s the tone of my Canvas Magazine column – The WorkLife Minute which features an interview with career expert Marci Alboher.
If Thoreau’s words were actually heard, attaining material riches would not carry the weight it does in society or our consciousness. Even when his statement is held close and embraced, our desires in today’s post-modern society beg for the attainment of financial wealth, power, and an interest to further oneself on the scale of society’s economic and social benchmarks. But who says you can’t have both – financial success and a more conscious way of living. That was an underlying message at the Manifesting a Rich Life Prophets Conference which took place earlier this month in Los Angeles.
How do we do good, while doing well? That’s the root question addressed in every issue of Motto Magazine: Purpose, Passion, Profit. I’ve been writing for them for a couple of issues and I’d like to bring your attention to the most recent March/April edition which features, “6 Gurus of Eco-Chic.” For this issue, I…
