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What’s Worth Waiting For – and What Isn’t?

At the holidays, there’s good waiting and there’s bad waiting. If you’re a kid who celebrates Christmas, waiting for Santa is good waiting. If your stove stopped working right after you pulled out the Thanksgiving turkey and the appliance repair guy keeps ordering parts that don’t actually repair it, and if he never shows up […]

What Being A Member of The Most Exclusive Club For Working Parents Reminded Me

For a fleeting moment I was a member of an exclusive club that I’ve long aspired to be a member of. It wasn’t social club. It wasn’t a…

A Conversation For My Daughters

Election night was my turn to put our 7yo daughter to bed. My wife and I trade off, just as we did with our other two daughters until…

WSJ Story About The Rise of Lead Dads on Wall Street

Three years ago, I stepped away from my dream job, writing the Wealth Matters column in The New York Times, with an idea to start a media…

Who Steps In If The U.S. Can Never Provide Childcare Help?

Could the government help working parents with childcare? I watched the debate on Tuesday and was enthralled. I was as excited to watch it…

Here’s a Model for A Working Dad

As a Lead Dad, as a working parent, here’s what I’m most grateful for at the end of this week: a senior male leader who takes his job…

How To Maximize A Work Trip As A Dad

I had 30 hours in Charlotte, N.C., and I thought hard about what to do with those hours. Here’s a way to organize that time that could help…

Using Bad Luck To Teach Kids Economic Lessons

I got to teach my daughters basic economic lessons this week – namely the difference between fixed costs and opportunity costs…

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…

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…

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 …

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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