Thread by @law_while_human

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Mini-Rant About The Phrase "Work-Life Balance," Which I Didn't Know I Felt So Strongly About Until Just Now.

The phrase "work-life balance" is a hallmark of the problem we have with authenticity — how can we be authentic leaders if the very language we use to talk about our lives is falsely compartmentalized?  

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There’s not (or at least there should be) a Work Mike and a Personal Mike. There's just one Mike.  @michaelkasdan

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If there is, we are leaving each aspect with half of ourselves. And damaging ourselves all the while. This leads to stress, bad leadership models and modeling, and strained relationships and expectations and poor performance either at home, at work, or both.  

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Aligning those two things - and fostering a Culture that does that - instead of tending to them separately and independently (which is literally *impossible* to do well!) is a big part of what I want to do with "Lawyering While Human." 

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And it’s not even really about lawyering. It’s just . . . While Human.

#work #life #theyareboththesamething #integratedself #leadership #language #culture #authenticleadership #LawyeringWhileHuman #OKEnoughWithTheHashtagsWeGetIt

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