Ellen Galinsky

Ellen Galinsky
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When it comes to negotiating leave, find out what your company's practices are and what kind of bad and good experiences your boss has had. An organization's response is going to be shaped by their prior experiences.
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People who have good jobs in supportive workplaces are more committed. They're more loyal, they're more likely to stay with their own jobs, they're more likely to give their all to their jobs, to care about their company succeeding.
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You can have a policy, but there can be a culture against using it. The culture is where the rubber meets the road. It's actually what happens to people, regardless of what the policies are.
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Most of these changes that make work really work for employers and employees appear to be here to stay. In no case was there a statistically significant decrease in flexibility now offered.
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No one had ever asked young people about the issues they face growing up. I don't think this changes the fact that adults need to be in charge; I'm not asking children to run the families of America. . . . But their insight about their lives is actually fairly interesting input into our lives.
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What Fred is so wonderful at doing is to help children understand those fears, but not to say, 'They don't exist; Oh, don't worry, it will all be fine.' That doesn't really acknowledge that the child is afraid.
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When you feel pressured and pushed, when you feel not respected, when you feel tension at work, when you feel the work that you do isn't of real value, that leads to overwork. Sizable portions of the U.S. work forces have these feelings.
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The reason I think it's gaining momentum is because of natural-disaster preparedness.
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When children are in environments that are stressful, neglected, violent, that affects formation of the brain, and can have lasting effect.
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Try to understand what they think and expect so, if they've got some outrageous expectations like you're supposed to know everything when you walk in, we can help and say, 'No, that's not true. School is place for learning.'
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It's the ceaseless demand. Those are the things that affect your mood and your energy.
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What this finding reflects is the dissonance of today's reality and yesterday's old ideas. There's the assumption that family for women detracts from work while for men it supposedly enhances their viability and stability.
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Yes, all kinds of things can happen when you're the boss.
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This study is a clarion call for all of us -- companies and individuals -- to look at how we're working.