Category: Self improvement

  • In praise of work-life conflict

    Many of us find it nearly impossible to balance work and life. And most of us who struggle with work-life conflict, including me, loudly decry it. But in this post, let me sing one particular praise of work-life conflict: a busy home life gives you a substantially stronger negotiating hand at work. How? By allowing…

  • Work-life balance as a negotiation with yourself

    In today’s hurried and harried age, almost everyone has a hard time with work-life balance. The fundamental reason is obvious: the constantly increasing demands of work and life continually crash up against the fixed 1440 minutes in each day. And while it’s technically true that we can’t expand the clock, negotiation research has spent the…