The Office
The Problem with Work-Life Balance: Tips for Planting Trees
Special thanks to gothamCulture for the opportunity to write this guest blog which appeared on March 3, 2015. We talk a lot about balance. Work-life balance, balancing our time, balancing our commitments, and balancing our priorities. But what if we have it all wrong, and the paradigm of balance has actually been getting in our […]
Encore! Lessons from the Oldest Millennial
Kurt Nahikian* is one of those people who says so many pithy things, that you want paper and pen handy to write them all down. His personal brand is a ‘defender of big ideas’ and he has done it all. He says that at 50-something, he is the oldest millennial. Surely he is right. Here […]
Lessons in Meaning: How to Drink a Cappuccino
Agnes wanted to be an actress, but her dad wanted her to go into business and economics so she did. After a short and very successful run in a stock/banking oriented field, she realized that she needed to put quality of life first and pursue a different path. She’s never looked back. Agnes is originally […]
Zoltan’s Pillars for Work-Life: Advice from a Marathon Runner
Zoltan Vadkerti is a single 30-something based in Brussels. He is Hungarian and studied economics in both Hungary and The Netherlands before he moved to Brussels and co-founded the Worklife HUB*. He is a marathon runner which gives him plenty of time to reflect on many topics including work-life. His point of view – which […]
5 Simple Office Policies that Make Danish Workers Way More Happy than Americans – A Response
See article in Fast Company It turns out there are 5 simple things companies can do to have happier workers and the results that come from happier workers. They can establish reasonable working hours. They can lower power distance (give less orders and make more suggestions of workers). They can provide generous unemployment benefits (so […]