Practice Management

Breaking news: I will name my next three children after Jack Welch.

By Dan Hull

Query: In the United States in the year 2009, must you be Jack Welch just to tell the truth any more? And please note, everyone: it's not a Mommy, Woman, Man or Gen-Y thing. It's about customers, quality and not alienating the productive workers at your shop so irretrievably that they vote with their feet.

Tons of coverage--and oddly much of it negative--on this story. WAC? is so outdated, irrelevant and old fashioned. For now see "No Such Thing as Work-Life Balance for Women, says Jack Welch" by Alpha Mummy at The Times of London.

We are indebted to Redford for the heads up on the Welch story. We've been working too hard lately to notice coverage of the WLB swan song. But this is great. I was getting tried of going to my meetings, anyway:

Hello everyone. My name is Rob. I'm recovering workaholic. Feels really good to be able to say that today. My life was unmanageable. My co-workers did an intervention--and they saved my life. You see, one year ago today was the end of my last work bender....

"Work-Life Balance Is A Dumb-Ass Issue" and related posts dating from 2006 can be found in the Running Firms archive at this blog.

Life ain't easy for a little girl on the playground known as "Jackwelch". But we are too inspired to change it now.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on July 17, 2009 (boomark / email).