Making the Most of This Mess

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Human, Business/careers, Women, Careers, Hbr, Resources, Workplace, Gender, Business, Business/entrepreneurship, Harvard, Progress, Equality

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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A behavioral scientist gives advice on how to better muddle through working from home during the crisis. She also points out the long-lasting positive changes in women’s personal and professional lives that may come from having to reset expectations and boundaries right now. Guest: Ashley Whillans. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
0:06.0	In their programs, experience the power of fresh perspectives and connect with a world of new ideas.
0:13.0	Learn more at HBS. Me slash work.
0:17.0	That's HBS.
0:20.0	M.E slash work.
0:22.0	When I think about three months, six months, work.
0:23.0	When I think about three months, six months, nine months a year from now, it's hard not to panic that the way I did my job, the way I made money,
0:33.1	the way I even took care of myself at home or professionally
0:38.1	is not going to be possible.
0:40.7	I sort of stop at that panic, which is probably not healthy and don't think about the
0:45.3	positive but there are moments where I get excited about the possibility of reinventing all of that?
0:54.4	Yeah, I think that so much of how we come out of this
0:59.8	can be determined by us as women, and this is a time for women to talk to one another about
1:08.0	their realized needs and their changing expectations and how they deal with those new needs and new expectations
1:20.0	together.
1:21.0	Right. You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
1:28.5	I'm Amy Gallo.
1:29.8	And I'm Amy Bernstein.
1:31.9	In the middle of what's probably going to be another very long, very tiring day for many women, us included,
1:39.8	we're catching our breath to reflect on what the daily grind of coping with this unusual situation
1:46.6	is doing to our well-being.
1:49.6	We'll be talking about the ways to soldier on as best we can in the short term.
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