Work-Life Balance


Recent Work-Life Balance Articles

5 Steps to Being a Happier Entrepreneur 

Serial entrepreneur Ted Leonsis talks about how you can increase productivity by being a happier person.  Watch video

Under-Appreciated Business Tool: Dreams

Spending time pondering your dreams isn't just for philosophers. It's actually a hard-nosed business necessity for entrepreneurs, argues one business school ...  Read more

Employees Doing Personal Chores at Work? Let Them!

Research shows business owners are increasingly relaxed about employees doing personal tasks during the workday. Here's why that's the right approach.  Read more

A Love Story: Start-ups & Ultimate Frisbee

Founders, engineers, and designers have wrested control of Ultimate Frisbee from jocks and made it their own. I got in the game to explore.  Read more

Your Start-up Can't Be Your Only Passion 

Genevieve Thiers, co-founder of Sittercity, talks about why it's important for her to have her artistic pursuits outside of the office.  Watch video

Pay Your Employees to Work Less. Huh?

One company gives its team hefty bonuses...for getting away from the office and unplugging. How did we ever reach this point?  Read more

Entrepreneurs: What Do You Do Outside of Work? 

Dan Ratner, co-founder of Sittercity, talks about his passions outside of his baby-sitting service start-up.  Watch video

11 Ways You Allow Your Life to Suck

Is your personal or professional life unsatisfying? Here's how you--more than anything else--might be holding yourself back.  Read more

Build Something You Would Actually Use 

Genevieve Thiers and Dan Ratner, founders of Sittercity, talk about keeping their baby-sitting service something they themselves would use as parents.  Watch video

Opera Trained Me for Entrepreneurship 

Genevieve Thiers, co-founder of Sittercity, talks about how performing in front of a crowd helped her convince customers to use her service.  Watch video

Grind, Hustle & Payoff 

Serial entrepreneur Genevieve Thiers started Sittercity, a website to find babysitters, in 2001, and runs it with her husband, Dan Ratner. Since then, they'v...  Watch video

"Every Day Is a Roller Coaster Ride" 

Genevieve Thiers and Dan Ratner love the entrepreneur adventure, so they have created three companies. The biggest is Sittercity.  Watch video

Raising Nearly $30 Million in Venture Capital 

With venture financing and guerrilla marketing, Genevieve Thiers and Dan Ratner are making Sittercity into a household name.  Watch video

Outside Work, Opera & Illiteracy 

Genevieve Thiers and Dan Ratner have a full life outside of work at Sittercity. Thiers is an opera singer, and Ratner co-founded Open Books, a non-profit tha...  Watch video

Summer: To Chill Out or Work Harder?

You might feel tempted to mellow the pace at work in the summer. Should you resist the urge or follow your instincts?  Read more

5 Ways to Make Your Own Happiness

Achieving happiness in business and life can be a challenge if you don't declare freedom from these five things.  Read more

Your Most Important Investment

Chances are, you're failing to invest in the most important asset of all. Do these five things and your business will be better for it.  Read more

When Family Takes a Back Seat to Your Employees

For the entrepreneur's spouse, it can be hard not to see employees as rivals.  Read more

Only Do What You Do Best 

Entrepreneur Eboo Patel doesn't try to do everything at his non-profit, Interfaith Youth Core. He only does what he loves.  Watch video

Balancing Work & Life Is a Skill 

Work-life balance can be a struggle, entrepreneur Eboo Patel talks about the strengths of his better half.  Watch video

How Do You Have Fun? 

Entrepreneur Eboo Patel, founder of the non-profit Interfaith Youth Core, talks about how 'fun' changes as he has become more successful.  Watch video

Kids & Career: 5 Ways to Have It All

A recent Atlantic cover story argues that you can't hold a top job and be a good mom. But I beg to differ.  Read more

The Only Definition of Success That Matters

To a small business owner, to an employee--to anyone--there is only one way to determine success.  Read more

Stressed? Don't Take a Vacation

Getting away may seem like the perfect solution to chronic stress, but the author of a new book says the counterintuitive truth is you're better off staying ...  Read more

'Why I Will Never Be a Victim'

After a vicious attack, Save the Date founder Jennifer Gilbert not only moved on, she also built a $30 million business.  Read more