Today I want to briefly share this excellent blog post with you on applying lessons learned at work to your personal life, from LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. In it he discusses realizing that he was putting the people he cared about on the back burner, in the belief that they could handle it and would cut him some slack. Jeff's a brilliant leader who's done great things at LinkedIn, but it hit him that he wasn't even giving his family the same consideration as the people he manages:
"...I was doing what so many of us have a tendency to do: Taking the people we're closest to for granted by assuming they are the ones we don't need to make an effort with. After all, they'll understand, right? However, nothing could be further from the truth."
We put so much energy into maintaining the right attitudes and relationships at work that we frequently don’t give the same effort and respect to our friends and family. Find the line and try to walk it - you probably don’t have to get it exactly right - and you’ll find yourself much more satisfied with your work-life balance.
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What an excellent communicator that Jeff. Great posting to link to--this moment of realization is so apparently obvious, but everyone has to have their own "ahah" moment, and really, I find that I periodically keep having to come back to it.
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