Do good fathers go mountain biking?
Carrie left a comment on the "False choices" post last week noting that she had just such a false choice going on in her family. …Read More
Category Archives: Work
The Richer Sex
This week's Time magazine cover story is on "The Richer Sex," with author Liza Mundy arguing that women are poised to take over as the …Read More
This is how we do it
168 hours -- the amount we all have per week -- is a lot of time. I maintain that it is enough time to build …Read More
The Princess Problem
(Laura's note: This column originally ran in USA Today on Aug 12, 2009. It's somehow disappeared from the archives, and since I've been getting requests …Read More
Book writing in the age of blogs
Books are an old-fashioned medium, much like albums. In the iTunes era, the album model has increasingly struggled, and these days each single needs to …Read More
Why retire?
The markets have been rallying since October, slowly building a cushion around shaken nest eggs. That sounds like good news for baby boomers approaching retirement …Read More
Can money buy you balance?
I’m not a big fan of the phase “work-life balance.” It implies that the two concepts (work and life) take up equal space, which is …Read More
Getting out of a rut
I've been reading Getting from College to Career, the classic career guidebook by Lindsey Pollak (a longtime friend of this blog -- click on that …Read More
The New Tupperware
A few years ago, I went to a Tupperware party in a friend’s apartment. It was a somewhat surreal experience. The official Tupperware representative was …Read More
Round-up: Introverts in business
Is it really Friday again? This week I had a piece over at Fortune called "Can introverts succeed in business?" Using as a news hook …Read More