HBR Working Moms Collection (6 Books)

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The Agile Family Meeting

by Bruce Feiler

Quick Takes

Start with one meeting per week with just three questions:

• What worked well in our family this week?
• What didn’t work well in our family this week?
• What will we agree to work on this week?

Families around the world are searching desperately for fresh techniques for managing their household chaos. One proven solution that my family, along with many others, uses comes from an unlikely source: agile development.

It’s no secret that working parents face enormous pressures. Ellen Galinsky, of the Families and Work Institute, asked a thousand children, “If you were granted one wish about your parents, what would it be?” When she asked parents to predict what their children would ask for, the ...