7 steps to freedom from balance

Are you tired of living that balanced life?  Nothing falling through the cracks and you’re doing everything you want with whom you want to do it with?  Miss the challenge of having life stacked against you?  Well if so, try a few of the tips below to help get you back to where you want to be.
  1. Say yes to everything

  2. If you’ve found that you just have too much time to do what you’d like, you obviously aren’t doing enough.  So next time someone asks you if you want to do something, say yes.  Don’t even wait to find out what it is.  Take out the trash? Sure.  Draft that memo for a friend in another department? Why not? Agree to make a presentation on a topic you have no familiarity with to a group of senior executives who can make or break your career when it has no direct correlation to what you do, and do that tomorrow?  Sounds like fun! Continue Reading

Book Review: “Leadership Agility” by Joiner and Josephs

I’m currently part of a leadership development program at work, and thought I’d share my thoughts on one of the key books we’re working with.  Feel free to ask me any more questions either in the comments or by email!

Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change by Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs strikes an interesting balance between being a summary of research, a resource for coaches and trainers, and a source of learning for students of leadership and personal development. Through combining hard research with experiential learning and relevant experiences, it fulfills these roles handily.

The book itself is broken into three parts:

  1. What Is Leadership Agility? - A brief overview of what LA is and examples in several forms illustrating it in (near-) real world environments.
  2. Five Levels of Leadership Agility – More detail, really the meat of the book, going into great detail about each level of agility and what it means, and examples illustrating this using real world examples.
  3. Becoming a More Agile Leader – Guidelines for taking the details learned in part two and integrating them into your day to day life.

Throughout these pieces, we’re treated to a very complete view of what LA is at various levels of Agility and detail, and they’re well tied together through the use of real examples (or nearly so). Continue Reading

Quicklinks - March 31, 2009

In line with the old quick and dirty posts, I just wanted to share a few quick links that I came across.  Enjoy!

A glimpse at part of Best Buy’s ROWE in a non-ROWE environment?

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/the-freedom-to-travel-anywhere-anytime-without-getting-fired.html

And a few tips to help yourself avoid burnout (also from Lifehack, now that I see it.  Didn’t notice that in my feed reader.)

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-to-keep-burnout-at-bay.html

Have links you’d like to share?  Drop me a message at adam@liveworkbalance.com

Up and Running

UPDATE: Feedburner feed and email is working again. Not sure what’s different, but I’ll take it.

Well, if you take a look around, you may see a few changes.  A different look, some new features, and a new feed address.  As I wasn’t able to sort everything out with Feedburner/Google, I’ve repatriated my feed, so if you’ve been following LiveWorkBalance in your RSS Reader, be sure to update your subscriptions to the new feed either by clicking above, or by changing the address to http://www.liveworkbalance.com/feed/.  I’m still working out how to get the email subscriptions  back up and running, so if anyone has any suggestions on that front, please pass them along!

As I said, I’m also taking the opportunity to make a few changes around here, so if there’s anything you’d like to see, whether it’s in the site itself or something you’d like me to cover, please feel free to let me know.

Over the next week or so, things will continue to be in a bit of flux, but new content is ready to go and will be coming shortly.  In the meantime, be sure to check out my most recent post, Balance Roadblock: Productivity.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing everyone again!

Adam