Succeeding as a First-Time Parent (HBR Working Parents Series)
by Harvard Business Review, Daisy Dowling, Eve Rodsky, Bruce Feiler, Amy Jen Su
INTRODUCTION
No Spreadsheet Can Cover This
by Daisy Dowling, Series Editor
By nature, I’m a planner and—I’ll admit—a bit of a spreadsheet nerd. So nine years ago, when I found out that I was expecting our first child, I opened up a fresh Excel sheet and got to work. Everything, and I mean everything, I thought I needed to do or think through before the baby’s arrival made it onto my list—which of course was sortable by date, category, and stakeholder. With so much changing and so much unknown, it gave me a wonderful, reassuring feeling to know that I had ordered the “right” baby bathtub, and that the insurance forms I needed to fill out before leave were already complete, signed, and ready to hand over to HR. A car seat, educational toys, the ...
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