Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, learning, managing, parenting on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
We went to Ikea for dinner tonight. (This time, we didn’t go just to get the monkeys to behave, but knowing that I wanted to go check some stuff out gave me a great way to keep those guys in line all day. A nice byproduct.)
After dinner, we went downstairs to get ice cream. We [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, incentives, negotiation, parenting on June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m in a sophisticated phase of parenting called bargaining, negotiating and bribery.
I’m not proud, but I’ll do what it takes to ensure that the monkeys not only know that they shouldn’t pull their teacher’s hair in school but that they don’t actually do it.
A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of misbehaving at school. In [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged empowerment, managing, parenting on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Sue Shellenbarger wrote a nice post about how women indirectly influence how their spouses parent a few days ago on The Juggle, the WSJ’s blog on juggling work and parenting. A study written up in Journal of Family Psychology found that the way a new mom reacts to her spouse’s parenting efforts has a huge impact on whether he [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged leadership, management, Parenting Wisdom, sick kids on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Brazen Careerist, is one of my favorite blogs, and I especially liked Penelope’s recent post on how to be a good manager. Her mantra: be generous. Which I love, of course, because it’s not only something that applies to being a good manager, it applies to being a good person in general. Life is not [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged analysis paralysis, leadership on March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Tonight, I was playing in the basement with the monkeys before dinner. Urban Super Dad called down to let us know that dinner was ready. “OK, Monkeys,” I said, “time to go upstairs for dinner.” It was 6:30 and I was hungry. “We’re playing,” was the response, accompanied by a complete lack of movement towards [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged discipline, leadership on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At our company retreat the other day, I was doing some thinking about how I can grow in the next year and came up with the idea that I should be more authoritative. I am one of the leaders of my company, and while I think my leadership has impact in small group settings, I’d like to [...]
Posted in Managing Talent on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
We’re visiting my brother and his family in Orlando, and got the chance to go to Sea World with the monkeys this afternoon. I was a bit apprehensive about the trip, not being a big fan of crowds or commercialism, but I heard that they sell beer, so twisting my arm wasn’t very hard. We saw [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, Managing Talent, tagged career planning, committing to work, Millenials, work/life on January 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I read Marci Alboher’s Shifting Careers blog in the New York Times on Saturday, and have been thinking about her Friday post it all weekend.
She pointed to Marc Andreessen’s posts about creating a successful career. He makes some interesting points in the entries. I especially like what he has to say about making sure that you expose [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged frameworks, hiring decisions, household help, leadership, managing, organizational behavior on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
So I followed the advice from First Break All the Rules in hiring a new nanny, and I’m really pleased with the person that we’ve hired. She’s got a great attitude, the kids really love her, and she seems comfortable managing the challenges of the job (and by that I mean corralling a pair of [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged kids, labels, personality tests, StrengthsFinder, Supernanny on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
During a rare evening alone in front of the TV the other night, I indulged in a guilty pleasure: watching Supernanny! At one point in the show she was talking to the parents about the negative labels that they put on their children, and encouraging them to come up with positive ways to think about [...]
