Money
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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