“Separate Work and Personal Life.”
That kind of involvement between business and family doesn’t work for everyone, though, and Barbara Corcoran described a completely different approach in a 2016 interview on “Behind the Brand.” “All I can do,” Corcoran said, “is separate my personal life from my business life, and I do that very well, and I do it in a very simple fashion: I don’t take any calls, including from my kids, at work…but when I get home…I take my cell phone and leave it in the hallway…When I’m with my kids I’m 150 percent, when I’m with my work I’m 150 percent…and I’m able to do both much better than trying to blend it like I used to in the old days.”