Many tech execs are so focused on their career that they don’t spend the time they should with their family. Life is so short, and your family should be the number one priority of any tech exec. I know, with all the pressure today to operate at the highest levels, it’s difficult to make time to get away.
As a senior tech exec work with your Talent organization to sensitize and encourage them to walk the walk. In other words, every organization today talks about work life balance. However, when it comes down to it, the work life balance goes to the back burner. Talent needs to help enforce and emphasize the importance of family, ensuring that leaders get the time to break away and spend time with their family.
For me, I have a son who is a strong baseball player and is on an elite travel team. So, he travels every week starting in June and ending at the beginning of August. So, we are talking roughly eight weeks. Being 16, he can’t travel on his own. So, I try to make sure I am with him as much as possible. This requires me to manage my schedule to be able to travel and support him. Eight weeks out of the year isn’t a huge burden to figure out how to spend time with your kid.
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