The Intersection of Management & Parenting
The 2-for-1. This is something I’m known for at work. How can we scale a team, a project, a process, a strategy and stretch the effort to have even greater impact beyond the original goal? We do this by exploring our strengths across domains. We seek out common needs. We look for ways to solve a challenge by utilizing what we already know; what we love to do; what serves multiple objectives.
Instead of the Sisyphean task of finding “work-life balance” and pretending I am one person for part of the day, a mom, and another person for the other, an engineering manager — I try to embrace how my strengths and interest in each realm have crossovers that can inform all parts of me. I don’t have to be one or the other. I can grow in both. I can help others grow, in both home and work. I can find ways that being a manager helps me be a parent. And ways being a parent helps me be a manager.
Another 2-for-1. Sign me up.
