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Being a Parent Made Me a Better Manager, and Vice Versa
by Jelena Zikic
Quick Takes
- Apply the skills you learn by working and by parenting in both realms
- Recognize that dealing with routine chaos makes you highly adaptable
- Create safe spaces at home and at work
- Learn from feedback and mistakes
Over the last 10 or 15 years, those of us who work for organizations have gotten more and more comfortable talking about work-life balance as a business issue; about making the workplace more human, authentic, and compassionate; and about discussing work as something that deserves passion, meaning, even love.
Yet when we go home at the end of the day, how much of what we learn at work about prioritizing, communicating, and managing conflict do we ...
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