Taking the best practices from top performing leaders and organizations and applying those same principles back into family life as well as taking the best parenting practices and applying those principles back into corporate cultures and values. This requires some reinterpretation and application but I believe both environments could benefit from cross pollination. My perspective is designed to b
e more philosophically practical and applicable than theoretical or just informational. I hope this material will be motivational, inspirational, reasoned and wholistic. For example: Corporate principle of setting their teams up for success
When a top performing organization charts a course for growth, they develop attainable outcomes. They do this by providing appropriate leadership, vision, expectations and resources so that the desired outcome can be achieved successfully. Essentially setting themselves up for success. Parents should learn from this in the most practical of ways such as when getting their 2 year old together with another 2 year old for a playdate. The parents expectations will be to have a good time as adults while enabling a great social activity for their child. Unfortunately, 2 year olds are not great playmates. They do not have the capacity to share or "play together". They are not emotionally developed enough at this stage to engage in productive playing. What will most like happen is the parents will become frustrated by their child's inability to just get along and not interfere with their adult conversations. The issue is not the child but the parent. This situation requires adult supervision or active refereeing. Essentially setting yourself and your child up for failure because of a lack of understanding that the desired outcome is not attainable - quiet, gentle play among 2 year olds! The same is true if a parent expects a 4 or 5 year old to clean up their room. A 4 or 5 year old does not have the capacity to organize and structure a clean up. What a 4 or 5 year old needs is guidance and help from the parent. Cleaning up a bedroom should be a joint activity where the adult role models the process and thinking behind the activity. The parent role models a successful outcome. Anything else is essentially setting your children to be overwhelmed and unproductive - setting them up for failure.
