At 2AM last Friday, Roseanne Roseannadanna (1) was keeping me company. My head kept trying to sooth itself with her famous SNL mantra: “If it’s not one thing, it’s another“ followed by her wonderful laundry lists of foul items. Mine: fluids of many sorts — gallons of liquid from our burst water heater into my [...]
I just finished reading “Equally Shared Parenting: Half the Work….All the Fun” by Marc and Amy Vachon, and I really enjoyed it, in large part because they say so many of the same things as Sharon and I. I especially love the fact that the book was written by a couple, and they seem so [...]
My daughter came home from kindergarten reciting “I Have A Dream” so we decided to watch the YouTube. Her 8-year old brother Max furrowed his brow as MLK talked about the day to day ugliness of racism. “What kind of people could be like that?” Max wanted to know. We’ve talked about the horrors of [...]
As I resolve to be a better person in 2010, I think about a poignant bit of paternal wisdom — one I received from my dad via his holiday letter. My father, a retired shrink, is now 82 and closed out 2009 by shipping 1400 pounds of psychiatric texts to an institute in Beijing. Packing [...]
“What about the holidays?” a women in her 20s asked me, “You see all these capable women running around stores, decorating homes, cooking big meals — how much does the girl/boy labor gap widen in December?” A lot it seems. While the average hours men spend with children are up big in our generation, holiday planning [...]
December 11 is the anniversary of Bernie Madoff’s arrest. Though Madoff’s fraud was different from the willful blindness that caused so many Wall Street firms to lose their way, there’s an important similarity: Market discipline was replaced by boys gone wild. Free markets assume the Economic Man: the rational actor who weighs risk against reward. [...]
It’s almost unanimous: 93% of moms say there’s a “father absence” crisis according to a great new report by The National Fatherhood Initiative released yesterday. Interestingly, very few of us moms (15%) think we have much to do with the problem. Aren’t we the ones providing our husbands all those lists and useful suggestions? As [...]
I had just interviewed a fascinating consultant, Dr. Jeannie Kahwajy, who runs Effective Interactions helping management teams communicate more productively. She points out how much more effective we all are at work if we invite the contribution of everyone in the room — even those who have a hard time being heard. She talks about [...]
Do men resent powerful women? One of the most intriguing statistics in “A Woman’s Nation,” the recently released survey by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress, is this: 69% of women think men resent women who have more power than they do. Only 49% of men agree. Who knows who’s right. What we [...]
I was amazed to learn how much research there is — at business schools — saying 24/7 work culture is counter-productive and not the necessity it is often seen to be. Even in the most demanding jobs, re-thinking time use gives us BOTH better results for clients and more dinners at home. A newly published Harvard Business Review piece (on a 4-year study at Boston Consulting Group) offers very inspiring ideas we can all apply where we work.
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