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A Working Parent’s Survival Guide
by Daisy Dowling
Quick Takes
- Rehearse your transitions ahead of time
- Audit your commitments
- Plan your calendar
- Frame and recast your working-parent messages
- Use “today plus 20 years” thinking
- Revisit and recast your professional identity and brand
Jacob was a partner at a respected consulting firm and—to his delight—an expectant father. As the due date loomed, though, he became increasingly apprehensive. How would he and his wife, who worked long hours as a physician, find optimal childcare? Was it possible to use his firm’s generous paternity leave without negative judgment from his colleagues and clients? And with his “road warrior” schedule, how could he be a present, loving father to his new daughter? ...
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