Last week we were living in Whine Country. All week the monkeys were super whiny, and they’d freak out over basic issues.
One day they came home from school bawling. I sat with them on the couch and tried to talk to them about what happened. “Daddy ripped my fig bar,” was all I could [...]
Posts Tagged ‘management’
Getting out of whine country: how to engineer a change in behavior
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged discipline, leading, management, parenting on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Management vs. leadership
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged great quotes, leadership, management on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Management is “DOING THINGS RIGHT” while leadership is “DOING THE RIGHT THING” from The Six Domains of Leadershipby Sim B. Sitkin and E. Allan Lind.
Being a good manager/mom: be empathetic
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 [...]
