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Family First, According to Dad

Screen Shot 2015-06-19 at 10.59.21 AM“Family first.” That’s common career advice among moms, but this time it came from an unlikely source: a titan of Wall Street.

Jimmy Lee, vice chairman of JP Morgan Chase, died unexpectedly Wednesday at age 62.

In 2001, he turned down a chance to run Blackstone, the giant private equity firm. Lee said turning the job down cost him “billions, literally” but would have meant missing his three kids’ sports games. “Family first, no matter what” became his motto. He spoke often about juggling family and career, saying it was doable if you planned ahead.

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Ways To Explain What You Do When You’re Out of Work

iStock_000000723468LargeYou’re career is in transition, either by choice or circumstance.  How do you answer the basic, “What do you do?” question without saying, “Uh, nothing  right now?”

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Women and Deutsche Bank: ATLAS Female Leadership Program Opens in London

On April 15th in London, Deutsche Bank launched its fourth ATLAS program, their global leadership development initiative for female managing directors.

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Career ObstaclesWorkplace

The New Rite of Passage

iStock_000005467861XXLargeCollege students study just an hour a day, half as much as their parents did. They view college as a place to meet people and learn relationships and when they graduate, a third of them go back home to live with their folks — double that of grads in the 60s. And when it comes to finding a job, “Many young adults have not been given basic information about how to go about this,” David Brooks writes in The New York Times. 
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Fat-shaming at Work

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Fat-shaming at work – snide looks or comments about what women eat on the job – is alive and well, according to the New York Post.

 

Monitoring and commenting — directly or indirectly — about what colleagues eat during the workday reminds us of a form of bullying in which you’re either the bully, the bullied or the bystander.  Only here, when dealing with eating habits, you’re either the shamer, the shamed or the spectator.   It’s just one more unwanted worry at work for people who have enough on their plates.

 

Does this kind of Mean Girls stuff happen in your workplace and, if so, where do you fall?
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