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Work-Life Balance: The Yellow Peanut M&M Analogy

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The common wisdom about work-family balance is wrong. We're asking the wrong question.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools.

0:02.0

Work Life Balance, the Yellow Peanut Eminem story.

0:06.0

Here we go.

0:08.0

This cast answers these questions.

0:10.0

How can I solve my work family balance challenges?

0:13.0

What can I do about managing my priorities?

0:15.0

What do I do about my long working hours?

0:18.0

Well, if you want answers these questions and more, keep listening.

0:31.0

Rather than having an ad here for one of our products and services, I'm using this time to make an announcement. In light of coronavirus, having significant impact on professional lives all over the world,

0:39.4

we will be in the course of the next several days,

0:43.0

seven to ten days, re-releasing

0:46.1

casts that we think you might have interest in or need for,

0:50.9

things about how to manage distant directs, how to do phone one-on-ones, particularly for those

0:56.4

of you who are used to doing face-to-face one-on-ones, and a series of cast about working remotely,

1:02.2

as well as, for those of you who recall for many years ago

1:07.8

our podcast on the Steel Cage death match meeting which we think is legitimate possibility for some of you in the next three to six months.

1:18.0

We thought I'd share that with you, be looking for them in your feed.

1:22.0

Mark, we get questions all the time.

1:25.0

This comes up just seems like almost weekly with folks about work family balance.

1:30.0

Yep.

1:32.0

And as we've discussed before, particularly at conferences, the common wisdom about

1:37.0

work family balance is wrong.

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