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 The Practice of Life, tagged ideas, innovation, learning, parenting on June 24, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Managing Expectations, tagged leadership, parenting on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Someone found my blog yesterday by googling “hit new husband with rolling pin.” I am so proud.
The search tracking capability of wordpress is great because it allows you to see the digital wake that your writing leaves. Themes, posts and comments all merge together in this wake in a way that the writer can’t control. [...]
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 [...]
