Work + Money

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Balance is out: Life chapters are in

My husband subscribes to this fabulous magazine called Inc., which is intended for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Because he hardly ever has time to read it, it usually ends up sitting on the kitchen counter for weeks at a time, and I like to peruse it while I eat my cereal in the morning (or late at night, when I’m starving from the stupid diet I am on). Though I don’t own a business, and I am not at all entrepreneurial – I do have lots of great ideas, but I suck in the execution – I enjoy Inc. because I find that many of the topics actually relate quite well to being a working mom. There are, for example, lots of columns about managing your time, getting organized, being resourceful, figuring out what values are important to you as you grow your company, etc. and so forth. But in this month’s issue, there was a piece that was so brilliant and so on point that I just feel compelled to share it with you.

The article was about a guy named Howard Lefkowitz, who is the CEO of Vegas.com. The guy seems a little weird; he likes to scuba dive, but he lives in Nevada, so he built himself a really deep pool and as often as he can he puts on his scuba gear and goes down there and plays cards and listens to music, and that’s how he relaxes. The picture in the article is of him underwater, in full wet suit, at the bottom of this big, fish-less pool. Whatever. Anyway, the article wasn’t so much about him as it was by him; it was like, Howard riffing for three pages about what his job is like, and what his days are like, and how going out clubbing until three in the morning is actually part of his work. Uh-huh. Read More.



Risa Green is a critically acclaimed author who lives in Los Angeles. In the last four years, she has produced two children, called Harper and Davis, and two novels, called Notes from the Underbelly and Tales from the Crib. She is currently working on a third (novel not child). Risa writes the popular Tales from the Mommy Track column for Mommy Track'd.

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  • Zijuzijazijana's Avatar
    Posted by Zijuzijazijana Thu May 22, 2008 12:03pm PDT

    It's something like this scuba diving shop in this city where I live now in Poland.They must have made mistake by putting it in this city.Not only that there is no water near but what is even worse there is no pools near eighter and this scuba diving shop fully equipped.

    One day out of curiosity I went in and asked them how is business,they said great.I know they were joking,it must be a new trend.

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  • marissa is malibuisburning.com's Avatar
    Posted by marissa is malibuisburning.com Wed Aug 6, 2008 8:26pm PDT

    Fascinating. It's a great way to look at things. When I worked in the restaurant industry, we had to complete a nightly shift summary to send to executives. A fellow manager often wondered why we had to go into such great detail. "Why focus on the one guy who didn't like his steak rather than the hundred people who did?" he'd ask. "Overall, we pleased more people than we pissed off. That's the goal, isn't it?"

    Restaurant industry aside, that reminded me of the CEO in this article, and how we'd all do well to keep the 'big picture' in mind in every aspect of our lives.

    Marissa

    http://buzz.prevention.com/community/category/dulce-marisita

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