Improve Your Relationship with Your Boss
8 July 2014
Allison read It's Okay to Manage Your Boss: The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work and appreciated another dose of Bruce Tulgan’s advice for dealing with the crisis of undermanagement in the workplace.
Should You Be Starting Your Day With Devices?
1 July 2014
Allison read How to Spend the First 10 Minutes of Your Day by Ron Friedman on the HBR Blog Network and realized she needed to get back to starting her day in a better way.
Unplug
17 June 2014
Allison was asked to speak about how to “Unplug” at a University of Virginia employee conference last week. Today she’s summarizing what she shared with participants about how to disconnect to achieve more balance and productivity.
LEGO® Lessons, Continued
17 June 2014
Allison watched The LEGO® Movie for the third time and reflected on the things she's learned from her work with Professor LEGO over the years as well as the many lessons in this “AWESOME!!!” movie.
Reflections on the Written Word and the Natural World
10 June 2014
Allison read books by Beatrix Potter, poems by William Wordsworth and a draft of Barbara Linney’s memoir, Learning to Love Flat Shoes, while on vacation in England’s Lake District last week and celebrated the wonder of the written word and the natural world.
