by Jackie Acho | May 17, 2014 | Early childhood, Intrapreneurship, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Barbara Walters is using her megaphone to tell us something important. Can we hear her? Is she breaking through our armor of modern culture and personal regret to pierce our hearts? Does she fully realize how important it is and why now is the right time to...
by Jackie Acho | Nov 7, 2013 | CEO, Culture, Feminist revolution, Innovation, Intrapraneurship, Parenting, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Dear CEO of a Large Organization, You were raised to believe that cash is king, top-grading is leadership development, and workaholism is something to be exploited. Your business school competed you against your peers, which was vital practice for the years to come...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 29, 2013 | Fathers, Leadership, Mothers, Women in Science, Work Family Balance
My husband headed out of town this morning. I have important meetings and work to do. I have no backup childcare in place. You’ve been here, right? I bet your cortisol shot up just reading the title. What to do? Plan A: work through it. He’s probably old...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 24, 2013 | Culture, Early childhood, Empathy, Fathers, Feminist revolution, Identity, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
“Successful parenting is a principal key to the mental health of the next generation…In most societies throughout the world these facts have been and still are taken for granted and the societies organized accordingly. Paradoxically, it has taken the world’s richest...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 12, 2013 | Parenting, Uncategorized, Work Family Balance
Mother ducks are better leaders than many Fortune 500 CEOs. Chicks will risk life and limb following her across the busy streets of Boston. Would you do that for you boss? How about AFTER he/she steps out of the corner office? Do your leaders have a place in your...
by Jackie Acho | Aug 13, 2013 | Culture, Empathy, Inclusion, Intrapraneurship, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Fear-based motivation is powerful. It focuses our brains and readies us for battle. It hones us in on priorities for self-preservation. It’s all around us and is exhausting. This is why Judith Warner’s feature article, “Ready to Rejoin the Rat Race?”, in the New York...