Posts Tagged ‘taking time off’
A Case for Using Your Vacation Time
In late 2009, I took a twelve-week maternity leave. I was quite sure that it would be a working leave. I was in the middle of so many projects, leading many of them, and I was the expert on our organization’s database. The organization I worked for at the time was small enough that we…
Read MoreEven the Greatest Leaders Struggle with Margins
This is a true story about a leader, his team, and the difficulties with establishing boundaries and margins. As is often the case, one of the things that made this leader great was that he could get things done that no one else could. Even though he had trained his team and delegated well, a lot still…
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