Your Best Employees Are Running a Second Job Right Now. It’s Called Summer

Managing summer schedules is a logistical nightmare for workers. Businesses ignore it at their own peril.

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Every June, my coaching conversations change. The leaders I work with are still talking about strategy and succession, but underneath, a second operating system is running. One client described her summer as “a staffing plan involving three camps, four children, three pickup times, and one car.” Another scheduled our session for her car, in a parking lot, between a board call and a camp release that happened at the exact same instant as her other child’s, twenty minutes away.

The American school summer runs roughly 10 to 12 weeks. The standard American job offers nowhere near that in vacation. Into the........

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