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How A Daughter Learned to Negotiate For Pay
My 7-year-old daughter discovered the connection between work and money this weekend and she went all in finding things she could get paid…
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Why Vacationing at Work & Working on Vacation Works
How to vacation while working and work on a vacation – I’ve been thinking about this for the past month since interviewing a fascinating…
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7 Tips for Fathers
Some Father’s Day thoughts from one Lead Dad to other working dads out there. There are 8 years between my oldest and youngest…
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How To Best Use Downtime on a Work Trip
Every business trip has downtime, which few Lead Dads or Working Moms have in their day-to-day life. So my advice: don’t squander it! I…
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Do You Run From Your Kid Or Bring Her Along?
I slept on the couch on Saturday night. No marital spat – I was playing golf super early on Sunday, and I didn’t want to wake my wife up…
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Let’s Meet – In July, Please
I’ve long prided myself on doing everything anyone asked whenever they asked. Home. Work. Kids’ schools. Around town. Fun. I would get it…
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What’s One Thing You’d Do On Vacation Without Your Kids?
What’s the one thing you’d want if you got to go away for a few days with just your spouse? This is something my wife and I agreed on…
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We Rush. Sometimes We Regret It. What’s Learned?
Being a working parent isn’t for the faint of heart. I have the gash on my bald head from this morning as a reminder! I was rushing to feed one daughter breakfast (and convince her she needed a sweater) and chat with my wife who was doing double school …
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How a ‘Cone of Care’ Can Boost Employee Productivity
I looked up from a parent-teacher conference and I saw the image every HR leader, every people leader, wellbeing officer, every person in…
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A Letter To My Daughters’ Employers
To My Daughters’ Managers, Thank you. You’re leading a workforce that I couldn’t imagine in 2019 and struggled to believe would happen in…
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Skip Cherryholmes: Month 12 Of Lead Dad Life
Welcome to Month 12 of Lead Dad Diaries. This is it. We promised to follow Skip for a year on his Lead Dad journey. We did it. And from our…
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1 Lesson We All Need From A Masters Champ’s Dad
This is a father-son story that carries a big lesson for any working parent. Scott was a Lead Dad who devoted all his time to his children…
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