Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged childcare on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m always a bit suspicious of company outings. I get that they’re a nice way to connect with co-workers in a different way. I just worry that sometimes they’re the only time people actually have fun together. Meaning, the actual work isn’t together or isn’t fun, and the outings are a compensation for that. I [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged childcare, committing to work, guilt, Parenting Wisdom, sick kids, work/life, working moms on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been working part time since the monkeys were born. When I first went back to work it was two days a week and over the last two years it’s slowly inched up to four days a week. That actually seems like the right amount for me to be able to feel somewhat successful in my career [...]
Posted in Decision Making, tagged gut, consulting, client management, childcare, learning on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my Strengthsfinders strengths that I’ve always identified with is input, which means that I’m a collector of information. In my case, it means that I’m an information addict, filing pieces away in my brain, overloading on data, never shirking a web search when more information might be out there that might be able to help me in [...]
Posted in Decision Making, tagged innovation, childcare, nanny, Obama, South Carolina primary, Clayton Christensen, innovator's dilemma on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a great article about how Obama is trying a new approach to win South Carolina. In the past, the way to win in the South has always been to use established networks and leaders, get the endorsements or preachers and politicians, and roll on to victory. In part because Hillary [...]
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged personality, childcare, design, Richard sapper, great quotes, potty training, cooking with kids, boredom on January 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I was reading last week’s Business Week and came across an article on Richard Sapper. Apart from an inane argument about how to design, the article is a nice profile piece. I especially liked this quote from Sapper: “The most important thing for me is to give everything I do a form that expresses something. It’s [...]
