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at the ADDexecutive Forum — www.addexecutive.com/forum, a user-driven space for sharing your own stores, questions, and advice about your own efforts for a successful career as an executive, professional, or business owner with ADD. Topics from the ADDexecutive Forum will no doubt get picked up by the blog editors, and perhaps vice versa.

We welcome your feedback.

Your feedback is always welcome, especially during Phase I of the ADDexecutive release.

Please email your comments to the ADDexecutive editor:

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The ADDexecutive is published by Phil Marsosudiro, PO Box 3157, Durham NC 27715.

The ADDexecutive is launching in three phases through 2007.

Phase I, now live, is the ADDexecutive.com blog with articles written by the ADDexecutive editor, Phil Marsosudiro. Most of these articles will touch on corporate or personal management issues related to the ADD/ADHD mind in the workplace.

Phase II, on schedule for July, will include a panel of new contributors including clinicians (MDs, PhDs, MSWs, etc.) with insights into medicine, psychology, and other therapeutic issues that relate to workplace ADD; and other professionals (JDs, MBAs) with more thoughts on executive performance, coaching, and legal issues related to the Americans with Disabilities Act andmore.

Phase III, already in progress, is the opportunity for readers to contribute through the blog comments and through the forum. Reader-contributions are doubly useful: they bring knowledge to other readers, while also providing the authors an opportunity to share their knowledge — a therapeutic act on its own.

Planned updates in July:

•  a “rate this blog” or “rate this comment” function
•  articles from our first clinician/professional authors
•  announcement of our editorial board

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For better and worse, we’ve got the magic ADD. One moment we’re right here, and the next we’re hey, check out this new online tool for Jim, would you double check the figures on the KRX proposal?The ADDexecutive is here to serve us (and our colleagues) who believe that ADD is something to be taken advantage of where it’s an asset, and managed where it isn’t.Here’s what’s coming to the ADDexecutive:

Advice columns — detailed and specific! — on the things that really get us, like: how to deal with the “tempation of many ideas”, how to manage our excitement when we’re pitching a new client, or how to make the most of having a secretary or assistant (who we hire for their organizational skills, and drive nuts because we have none of our own).

Reader comments — a place to share your own feedback (c’mon, you know you want to say something!) and your own stories that might be helpful to someone else who’s “living the dream” of executive authority coupled with a head that has a mind of its own.

A nationwide directory of ADD clinicians and coaches — the ones who specialize in working with executives, professionals, and business owners.

Drug forums — How’s Strattera working for you? Better than Provigil? Oddly at certain doses? Not if we ever want to have sex again? You are one big science experiment — why not share? We’ll do the same.

Book reviews — We’ll skim the books so you don’t have to.

Product reviews — datebooks, desk organizers, you name it. And heck yes we want you to tell us which miracle products have worked for you (and why), and which ones weren’t worth the time it took to download you to remember to pick them up.

Software reviews — Who among us hasn’t believed at least once that a $129.95 piece of time management (or money management or project management) software wasn’t going to change our lives forever? We’ll review.

Clinical publications — from our friends with MDs, PhDs, MAs, and MSWs: their thoughts and research on the things that make us tick.

Links — of course. To other useful sites and people.

And more — Of course more. I mean, how could not say “more”?!

The ADDexecutive: a Resource Community with the best of info from our editors, clinicians, and you.

Drop us a line. We’ll be glad to hear from you.

– Phil Marsosudiro, editor

Coach and writer Eileen Bailey is the Guide for all things ADD at About.com.

Here are three articles she’s written on ADD in the workplace:

ADHD in The Military.
Did you know that the US armed forces will not enlist people who are
taking prescription medicine for ADHD?  (And did you know that the
Japanese, Russians, and Germans experimented with ritalin as a
performance enhancer in WWII?).  ~3 pp.

Accomodations in the Workplace.
“ADD/ADHD is covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act and
individuals with ADD/ADHD can be entitled to certain accomodations at
work based on their needs…”  This article is a good starting place for
individuals (and employers) with questions about what might or might
not be required by the ADA, and strategies for collaborative
negotiation to agree on arrangements that are both productive and
fair.  ~1p.

Surviving ADHD in the Workplace.  A collection of specific, practical tips grouped by (1) inattention/memory, (2) hyperactivity, and (3) impulsiveness. ~2pp.

And here is an interesting article she links to at LDPride.net:

Coping with LD/ADD in the Workplace.
Of note at the bottom of the article, a list of pros and cons for
deciding whether to tell a prospective (or current) employer about your
ADD.  Plus info on Canadian and US employment law. ~3 pp.

Excerpt from Eileen Bailey’s About.com profile:

"Eileen is a Certified Life Strategies Coach and has had articles
appear in Parent Source Magazine, the Family Website as well as several
local CHADD newsletters. Eileen has been a guest speaker at the ADHD
Foundation of Canada’s Annual Convention and on the Rose Moore Internet
Radio Show. She also works with local schools in providing parenting
children with ADHD classes. "