Simple work/life balance hack: multiple email apps
Use different email apps for work and home to avoid checking work emails in your downtime.
Topic
Mental Health
A collection of 7 issues
Should I hire an internal Shopify developer for my ecommerce site instead of paying an agency on retainer?
While agencies might seem more expensive at face value, even if you work mostly with one person, you are typically getting the benefit of a team’s breadth and depth of knowledge, perspective, and expertise.
The journey isn’t just lonely at the top
In our effort to build lean teams, we tend to underinvest in team-building. We overload our teams with too much complexity and too many areas of responsibility without the frameworks or systems to support them or enable them to have sounding boards and forums for healthy discussion.
Are you wearing too many hats in your organization?
How many of you wear the hat of “ecommerce manager” on top of your official title—such as COO, CMO, CTO, Marketing Manager, Designer, Founder, CEO…? You are not alone.
“Before we begin, is there anything on your mind?”
It’s easy to forget that the people we are interacting with each day have their own stresses and anxieties and challenges that they bring to the table (or the Zoom call!).
How can we foster a culture of mutual empathy, integrity, and respect?
One thing is clear to me, though: rather than establishing rules for how employees should relate to one another or what they can discuss, surely the best approach is to encourage a culture of mutual empathy and integrity and respect.
What does work/life balance really mean?
A tough challenge of leadership is how does one determine where the lines blur between anxiety and simply caring a lot! When does thinking about work and work-related problems after work and on weekends morph from being inspired and committed, to being preoccupied and not being able to switch off?