Category: work
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Are you a workaholic?
Wayne Oates, a psychologist who invented the word workaholic, wrote 57 books. Oates once said that his own addiction was “a disorder akin to substance abuse,” writes Jordan Weissmann in an article “The Work Addiction” in the September 2013 issue of The Atlantic. According to Weissman, workaholics work compulsively and with little enjoyment. They also…
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Keep working!
A French study indicates that people who delay retirement have less risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia. Researchers reported the results of the study by INSERM, the French government health research agency, of nearly half a million people at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Boston in July 2013, and we…
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I bought the book
I read the Time magazine cover story about Sheryl Sandberg and her book Lean In. I heard an interview with Sandberg on National Public Radio, and I listened to the audio book. And, then, I bought the book. In fact, I bought two copies of Lean In—one for me and one my daughter. The book…
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Usually alert and ready
When my friend Sara started working at the Dallas Times Herald in 1976 as a copy editor, she woke up early and left her home in Richardson by 3 a.m. to travel to the newspaper’s office in downtown Dallas. By 4 a.m., she was sitting at her desk, usually alert and ready to edit the…
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Mother or marathoner?
If you haven’t read Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” read it now. We printed out all 28 pages. The article is long, but it is very thoughtful. No matter if you’re young and just starting a career or a little older with children in college, no matter if you’re male…
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Tired and stressed?
By now the fact that an article in The Atlantic titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” brought more online response than any other article in the magazine’s history is, well, history—or herstory. But the response is solid evidence that the topic still is important and relevant to many women. My children are both…
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“There is work to do”
On December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white male passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, she signaled the start of the modern-day civil rights movement. Many people don’t realize that Parks had worked for equal rights many years before that day in 1955, and she continued…
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Why it’s okay to be an introvert
We often praise teamwork and prefer the life-of-the-party to the loner. But Susan Cain, writing in an article in the January 29, 2012, issue of The Dallas Morning News, reminds us that being an introvert can offer some distinct advantages. Cain is the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t…