m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Fast Company sends out daily emails with links to stories that I read occasionally. In the latest one, there was a link to an article about workaholicism. I really try hard to create balance in my life. I don’t always do a very good job partly because I share his compulsion to [...]

From a NYTimes.com article.
By a 2-1 margin, voters in Inglewood California have voted not to let Wal-Mart build a store in their town. Good for them! Even though the town and many of it’s residents are struggling financially, the people realized that it would, among other things, financially ruin local small-business retailers.

From Public Citizen, WhiteHouseForSale.org tracks special interest money in GWB’s 2004 presidential campaign.
And checkout BushSecrecy.org for info on what this administration is trying to keep secret and what others are trying to do about it.
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Julie Morganstern’s 4 Rules for Sane Delegating
1. Break the habit of total self-reliance. You’re not the only person who can or wants to do a good job.
2. Off-load one skill at a time. A gradual approach keeps both delegatee and delegator from being overwhelmed.
3. Establish a clear division of labor. [...]

In the April 2004 issue of O, Mary Lou Quinlan writes about how she jumped off the fast track by taking five weeks off, and then found herself when she launched her new consulting firm that specializes in helping companies market their products to women. It’s not that Quinlan has completely jumped off the [...]

When reading this story, “Guess Who’s Coming to Protest,” in the Christian Science Monitor, I was struck, not by the fact that normal everyday people are picking up the cause of environmentalism, but by the fact that they don’t want to be called environmentalists. It reminds me of the “I’m not a feminist, but” [...]