The Work Clinic

A book called "love is the killer app" by Tim Sanders is a great read. It's all about becoming a "Lovecat" within business and there are 3 key steps to this knowledge, networking and compassion. As an HR Manager, I found this book inspiring and motivating and with some realistic suggestions on how to grow personally and within your work. Sharing your knowledge, seize opportunities for networking and act with compassion are all key skills within the workplace and this book shows you how! If only everyone at work was a "lovecat"!

With Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap - And What Women Can Do About It, Dr. Warren Farrell continues his 30 year contribution to ideas fostering greater gender equity, and personal, relational, professional and economic fulfillment for men and women in the 21st century. Ironically, perhaps the startling truth behind this book is not its dispelling the ubiquitous illusion of gender pay discrimination, but in revealing strategies for work/life balance for men, women and families. And where there is a revelatory treatise here on sexism, it lies in its relieving men of the historical role of being security objects, harnessed to overtime and death professions to fulfill the archaic mandate to "be a man" and sacrifice life and limb for his family. Farrell does so not with protest or cries of unfairness, but by demonstrating 25 ways women can find professional and personal fulfillment and higher pay. His in-depth analysis of the job market without the assumption of discrimination provides revelations that poitively foster fulfillment of the original feminist vision of liberating women from confining sex roles. Doing so, Farrell provides a truer vision of gender equity and both-gender parental value by providing couples with the economic rationales and advantages in having only one parent work, including the option of having the father stay home to raise the children. This book has been too readily missed and ignored by the professional management community for its exhaustive empirical research, its practical insights for corporate fairness in employment practices, its insights for career direction, and consequently for the profoundly loving, soft revolution in its message and impact.