Work/Life Balance Management

ok, here's my philosophy of work/management/etc. in a nutshell. Note that this applies now and is subject to change at any time.

Work is part of life and life is part of work. You cannot separate the two. At any given point you are asking an individual to choose between priorities.

When you have a newborn at home, you have little room to prioritize work based on another's ego.

When you are engaged in a work project that can impact the world in a meaningful way you have little room to prioritize a distant relative's concern over making the same dish for a potluck.

If you succeed enough in selling priorities (by treating people as adults, spirit rallies, friendliness, money, profit sharing, flexibility, stability, paint color, cafeterias, t-shirt of the month competitions, whatever the fuck works), then the people that you spent so much time and money to find will surprise you because they care.

Or you could just focus on making sure that your HR policies won't get you sued and that people are fearful enough of losing their jobs to show up when they're required to be there.