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5 Great Anniversary Takeaways
Priorities shift. When I was in my 20s, my birthday was my favorite holiday. I’d take the day off and celebrate, well, me. As my kids were…
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Keith Nagel
Keith Nagel, a zookeeper by training and the newly elected president of The National At-Home Dad Network, is our Lead Dad of the Week…
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Would You Cut A Kid In Line? For Golf?
“Why does he get to cut the line?” my daughter asked as we waited in line to play golf, just her and me, no sisters. It was 2pm the day before Thanksgiving, a time when the people who came out for golf weren’t there to compete – that’s the early a.m. c …
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Skip Cherryholmes: Month 7 Of Lead Dad Life
Welcome to Month 7 of the Lead Dad Diaries with Skip Cherryholmes. We’re following Skip for a year as he goes from well-known touring…
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Peter Graves
Peter Graves, our Lead Dad of the Week, vividly remembers the year he devoted all of his time to his boys. It was 1995. In that pre-cell…
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5 Lessons About Change From Thanksgiving
This is our second Thanksgiving spent at an inn in northeast Florida, and there are some lessons in it for adapting to change more broadly…
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Brian Sullivan
When Brian Sullivan, our Lead Dad of the Week, took on management roles at Mastercard and later Charter Communications he had a go-to…
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5 Reasons Why Schools Need Dad Events
Here’s a story about a working parent’s journey from awareness to frustration to complaint (with a detour into unproductive grumbling) and…
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Saurab Bhargava
Saurab Bhargava was instinctive as a Lead Dad at work.A chief digital officer when his first daughter was born in 2012, Saurab took the…
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How To End OOO In Work Calendars – and Why It Matters
If there’s one thing I’d like to see removed from shared work calendars. it’s OOO – the ubiquitous calendar filler that stands for Out of…
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8 Phrases That Will Make You A Better Work Colleague
Language matters in the workplace.Too often managers and colleagues fall back on tired phrases. Those phrases perpetuate outdated beliefs…
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