tough love with seedlings (and chaos management)
I, girl who loves to talk about compost and hike in the mountains, just spent nearly two days at work in an all-day seminar on product management. The seminar was as interesting as a corporate meeting can be, but as the minutes ticked by I panicked about all of the things building up. I could almost see giant pop-up email notifications in my peripheral vision. VP of foolishness: At one point during the day, I found myself mentally starting a to-do list, responding to an email request from one my colleagues on my Blackberry, tweeting out a review that had just gone live, and looking up the new address for my doctor’s office on my iPhone–all at the same time (and I’m not kidding). I was simultaniously handling two phones, one social media site, email, a power point in front of me, and a guy using phrases like “perceived value” and “‘win/loss analysis.” Self-evaluation When I realized what I was doing, I had to actually laugh at myself. I’m so important that the office can’t function without me? Hardly. I caught myself before it could get any …