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noteworthies PROMOTIONS HONORS NEW HIRES Alliant Energy Chairman and CEO William D. Harvey plans to retire from the company effective March 31. Harvey has spent 25 years with Alliant Energy and its predecessor WPL Holdings, serving as chairman and CEO for the last six years. The board of directors has appointed Patricia L. Kampling, to succeed Harvey. Kampling was appointed a member of the board, effective Jan. 20; she will become CEO, president and chairperson of the board, effective April 1. Cascade Natural Gas has named Eric Martuscelli VP of operations. Ruben Moreno has joined Concentric Energy Advisors Inc.’s Washington, D.C., ofﬁce as assistant VP. Bruce W. Perlstein, PhD, and Ken Seiden, PhD, have joined Navigant’s Energy Practice as directors. Beverly L. Perry, SVP, external affairs for Pepco Holdings Inc. has been presented with the Whitney M. Young Jr. Service Award from the National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America. The award recognizes the outstanding services by an individual or organization for demonstrated involvement in the development and implementation of scouting opportunities for youth from rural or low-income urban backgrounds. Perry also was recently honored by District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray for her service as chair of the Washington Convention and Sports Authority. Piedmont Natural Gas has hired Victor Gaglio as SVP and chief utility operations ofﬁcer. PSEG has announced the election of Kathleen Fitzgerald as VP – corpoJoan Shafer rate communications. Sheila Rostiac has been named president of the PSEG Foundation and director of corporate social responsibility, succeeding Vaughn McKoy, who has rejoined PSEG’s legal department in a senior role as general state regulatory counsel. We Energies has appointed Charles Matthews SVP – wholesale energy and fuels, and Joan Shafer has been appointed SVP – customer services. A Better Balance CONTINUED FROM PAGE 28 r Don’t Leave You Personal Life Out of Your Schedule Be as diligent with scheduling your personal objectives (exercise, buy Amy’s birthday card, make dinner reservations, call Dad) in your calendar as you are with work commitments. Why do you put business appointments in your calendar? Because they are important, and you don’t want to forget them. e same is true for your personal life. Use a calendar, and remember to carry it with you. Put those personal items on the day you will do them, and look at your calendar every day. William Harvey Patricia Kampling Eric Martuscelli Stay in Balance by e nc Getting Out of Bala Staying in balance is like steering a boat. From my Florida ofﬁce I can see a lighthouse about two miles out to sea. Imagine you want to steer a small boat from shore to that lighthouse. Grasping the steering wheel tightly, you aim the bow directly at the lighthouse and accelerate toward your destination. If you continue to ﬁrmly hold the wheel in the direction you’ve started, without making any adjustment left or right, will you arrive at the lighthouse? No. What happens? Gripping the wheel you quickly ﬁnd that the lighthouse is off to your left; so you steer left. Within a few minutes the lighthouse is off on the right; so you steer right. You continue this pattern of left-right adjustment until you get to the lighthouse. You stayed on course by getting off course. e same is true in life. You stay in balance by getting out of balance. A life reality is you can’t be all things to all people at the same time. Instead, what you need to be able and willing to do is shift your mental emphasis for a day, a weekend, a week. Choose a person or project that is important to you that you have been neglecting. Make up your mind now to give focused attention to that person or activity for the upcoming week. Schedule speciﬁc things: buy my spouse ﬂowers; take my daughter to breakfast; sign up at the gym. Improve your balance by committing in your calendar how you will shift it for the next seven days. Every Day You can create a more positive work-life balance for yourself. Schedule well your business and personal objectives. Be conscious to shift your balance as needed. Stay focused in your people moments. And make sure you achieve and enjoy—every day. EDITOR’S NOTE: Portions of this Charles Matthews Beverly Perry article are excerpted from “5 Steps to Better Work-Life Balance,” by Jim Bird, to be published in August 2012. Get More! Special for American Gas Digital Edition Subscribers >> Click here to read the white paper “Work-Life Balance: Doing It Right and Avoiding the Pitfalls.” MARCH 2012 AMERICAN GAS 33 http://www.worklifebalance.com/assets/pdfs/article3.pdf

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Gas - March 2012

American Gas - March 2012
Contents
President’s Message
In the News
Safety First
Ask AGA
Leaders on Leadership
A Better Balance
Places to Be
Vendor News
Noteworthies
Jobline
Marketplace
Advertisers’ Index
Facts on Gas

American Gas - March 2012