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...
by Jackie Acho | Jul 13, 2013 | Empathy, Fathers, Leadership, Parenting, Uncategorized, Work Family Balance
It’s Saturday morning – a good time to review and connect in cyberspace on issues that matter. The problem is that some of these debates further entrench us, rather than propel us to better solutions. Work/family balance is one of those, and I’m...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 17, 2013 | Empathy, Fathers, Leadership, Parenting, Uncategorized, Work Family Balance
Leaning into fatherhood is an investment the US does not make. That much is clear in study after study, no matter how we cut the data, as in this article by Emanuella Grinberg, CNN. The question is why? The answer is because we haven’t made the value/return on...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 14, 2013 | Empathy, Intrapraneurship, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
We are constantly reminded that research is only as good as the questions we ask and as imperfect as any other human endeavor. Research design is prone to misleading reductionism as well. The research highlighted in this blog post by Polly Toynbee in The Guardian is...