Parenting and leadership
Being a parent is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. When I transitioned into management, I dove into books on leadership, looking for every detail I could find. But what surprised me was how often the lessons from those books applied to parenting and vice versa. Over time, I found myself using skills I learned as a parent at work and leadership principles at home. Nowadays, when someone in a leadership position asks me what to read, I always recommend two parenting books: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, and Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Dr. Becky Kennedy. I’ve distilled the information from these books into principles that I try to apply daily, both at work and at home.