Posts in “Leading Under Pressure”
Do you focus on achieving one goal at a time or do you try to reach many goals at the same time?
This has been the theme of the week.
An entrepreneur started a new venture and was concerned when things didn’t go as well as he expected. Although he had a great idea, he didn’t build the foundation to support the project, almost giving up before he had really started.
Another executive has been doing great with a simple strategy and was ready to let go with the consistent plan rather than focusing on it for the next few months before jumping into something else.
Do you work through strengths or through weaknesses?
Do you work through strengths or through weaknesses?
Years ago I was chatting with a more senior executive in Corporate America. I mentioned my love of medicine and its integration with business and my dislike of the more tedious financial reports. She immediately said I should focus on developing skills in the accounting and financial aspects of my work, leaving aside my forte as I shouldn’t focus on my strengths but on my weaknesses, she said.
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On culture and racism
You may imagine the public outcry.
Let’s think about this, though, and think each one of these requests at a time:
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Kids Stress
Do our kids stress more than we did when we were young?
Just as an example, if you feel swamped with the blessings and curses that instant technology brings to you, what about their situation? They have been born in the technology boom.
In addition, there are great disparities in the world of these children: those born into homes where they are well-taken care of and those who have experienced and lived atrocities that no adult or child should ever experience.
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Stressed about taking vacation?
Many worry about having a job during the recession, taking vacation doesn’t even cross their mind.
With busy week schedules, many try to maximize their recreation time on a daily and weekend basis rather than formally taking time off.
Interestingly, generation Y seems to be slightly more worried than generation X about whether or not they will still have a job when they come back as per this study.
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Forever Young
Are you interested in staying young forever? I was honored to participate on a panel with other prestigious speakers at the Anti-Aging Panel at the Florida Conference for Women in Orlando Florida, last week. The panel included Dr. Saralyn Mark, Dr. Deborah Harding and our distinguished moderator was Dr. Carol Scott.
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Obama’s New Year’s Resolution? Quit smoking when he gets to the White House.
In 2006, nearly 73 million Americans age 12 and older had used a tobacco product at least once in the month prior to being surveyed. Smoking is as addictive as heroin, as affirmed by the US Surgeon General. Addiction is a chronic condition and smoking includes one of the most difficult habits to kick.
Denial of the problem includes minimizing the harming effect of the addiction (“I’m healthy because I exercise daily,”) lying about quitting in the present (“I stopped, well, sort of”), or having high expectations about quitting in the future (“I will stop when I do this or that.”) Quitting smoking is not easy as withdrawal symptoms include discomfort including irritability, anger, anxiety, lack of sleep and depression.
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Life-Work Balance in the Holiday Season
Many still struggle keeping the holiday flame alive this season. Employers are asking the best of their employees while employees fear that they may lose their jobs unless they give it all.
How can we find some positive balance between working hard and keeping our sanity? How to handle increasing demands in the workplace and at home, staying in good shape and living up to the family’s expectations for gifts and favors?
These are some tips to continue to balance life and work during the holiday season:
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Work Wisely: Work Less Hours, Make More Money
In an ideal world, we would dedicate eight hours of our day to work, another eight to enjoy recreational activities and the last eight hours to sleep. The true question is, how many of you live in the ideal world?
Instead, in the real world, most people work twelve to sixteen hours every day, with little recreational time and with less sleep. Forget about taking any vacation during the financial crisis. People worry about keeping their job, lay-offs, foreclosures and downsizing.
While people are doing the work of two or three employees these days, being on the go 24/7 is counterproductive to high performance and increased productivity at work. Even athletes know that their performance will start to decrease if they train too hard or for too long.
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Barack Obama and his Day One Leadership Qualities
