Tag: kids
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Enjoyment
A few years ago I was talking with Nilofer Merchant about women in tech and the road we still have in front of us to truly be equal. She had just finished her book The Power of Onlyness. I was telling her that I don’t think the fight is working. I think making diversity and…
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Authenticity
What does authenticity even mean? I once worked with a CEO who would say that the most important attribute they wanted to see in the culture was authenticity. Every time they said it, I would ask, “what do you mean by that? What does an authentic culture look like?” When I google Authentic, the inter…
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A little perspective
This school year has been hard for H, the youngest Waydo. Really hard. COVID started when H was six years old. For him, that entire first year was in isolation. Zoom school with friends and teachers just trying to figure out how to make it through life in a 2-D world. Play dates weren’t a…
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#10%
On every team I lead, inevitably we will do an activity early in our time together where we go through a principles exercise. These are the 5 things that if we follow, success is inevitable. This process takes about two months to do a few exercises, draft the first set of five principles, live them,…
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“Mom, may I draw a boundary?”
That is what my youngest said to me this morning. Wow. I started feeling all the feels with that one. I’ve spent the last two years digging deep and developing a healthy relationship with Anger. I was raised in a house and community where we didn’t get Angry. Now, that is obviously false. Everyone gets…