The monkeys learned the song My Funny Valentine at preschool for Valentine’s day. (I love the monkey’s preschool!) They’ve been singing it for a few weeks now, and I’m finally learning the words. But between the three of us, we all mess up the song almost all of the time. Tonight at dinner, the wrong [...]
Posts Tagged ‘learning’
My Funny Valentine: on variation vs. consistency
Posted in Learning and Teaching, tagged client management, ideas, learning on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Interpreting a crisis: when what’s ‘true’ isn’t really what’s true
Posted in Decision Making, tagged breast cancer, gut, learning, truth on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago, I was speaking with a client who I’ve become friends with over a couple of years of working together. She has 7 year old twin boys and my monkeys are three, so in addition to talking about work I often turn to her for twin management advice. She’s super smart, has [...]
Old enough to learn how to eat an ice cream cone
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, learning, managing, parenting on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The power of the network
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged ideas, innovation, learning, parenting on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My company just celebrated it’s 10th Anniversary. To celebrate, we invited some amazing thinkers and doers to talk about whatever they’re thinking about and doing these days. My brain is full of interesting ideas, which I’m sure will spill into the blog over time.
But today I’m thinking about one speaker in particular, Andy Hargadon. His blog [...]
Do a hard reset on yourself
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged learning, Parenting Wisdom on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At school and at work, we learn to build on our experiences.
In fact, the older the get, the longer we’re supposed to remember information. When you’re younger, you get tested on what you’ve learned that week, or that month. By the time you’re in college or graduate school, you may only get tested once every [...]
Finding your learning edge
Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged engagement, learning on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I bought two great 3 piece puzzles by Melissa & Doug over a year ago. Both have animals that are easy for the monkeys to recognize and really big pieces with big knobs to hold onto. The monkeys started playing with them when they were about 12 months old, and could do them by 18 months. Today, I was organizing the toys and put [...]
When success does not equal succeeding
Posted in Decision Making, Uncategorized, tagged experiments, failure, learning, prototyping on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My husband and I are experimenting with new ways of handling childcare for the two monkeys and household responsibilities in lieu of a nanny. We’re trying longer days in school, and adding a day, plus hiring a dog walker for when I’m out of town, and asking my mother-in-law for some mid-week help.
It feels like [...]
When to toss instinct out the window
Posted in Decision Making, tagged childcare, client management, consulting, gut, learning on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
